A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.

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Thomas Jefferson

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1055 He who demands mercy and shows none burns the bridges over which he himself must later pass.
1065 War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
1069 The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.
1099 If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.
1071 The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.

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