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Sal, if we stays in Paris, we's free.
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Sally, this is your money. It'll be right here in the corner.
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This line is similar to one included in an actual letter from Jefferson to John Wayles Eppes in 1813. The quote there is, "The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead."
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We joined the crowd admitted, according to some ancient custom, to view the king and queen on their way to Mass. I meant to impress upon my daughter the vainglory of these spectacles. May we Americans never emulate them, nor burden our taxpayers with such useless splendors.
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You and I are alive, and the Earth belongs to us, the living.
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You roast it, then you eats it on the cob. And it's the sweetest stuff you ever eaten in your life.
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You will forgive my perhaps somewhat exaggerated anxiety. For an American, freedom of religious conscience is one of our great principles.
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[on the verge of tears] There's something in my eye.
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[referring to Franz Mesmer's animal magnetism practice] Sir, this is just trash and tricks for the weak mind.
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[to James Hemings] Won't be no field **** if it's his own child I's carryin'.
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[to Jefferson] Do you have no son?