Famous quotes containing the words jefferson and/or told:
“When angry, count ten, before you speak; if very angry, an hundred.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“... by dint of admitting to himself that he was too much as other men were, he had become remarkably unlike them in this—that he could excuse others for thinking slightly of him, and could judge impartially of their conduct even when it told against him.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)