About a year before he died, Thomas Jefferson wrote to Thomas
Jefferson Smith. The entire letter is
reproduced here: http://www.americanpresidents.org/letters/03.asp. Included in the letter was
1.
Never put off till to-morrow what you can do
to-day.
2.
Never trouble another for what you can do
yourself.
3.
Never spend your money before you have it.
4.
Never buy what you do not want, because it is
cheap; it will be dear to you.
5.
Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and
cold.
6.
We never repent of having eaten too little.
7.
Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.
8.
How much pain have cost
us the evils which have never happened.
9.
Take things always by their smooth handle.
10.
When angry, count ten, before you speak; if very
angry, an hundred.
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