Thomas Jefferson Quotes about Affection

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The happiest hours of my life have been spent in the flow of affection among friends.

The happiest hours of my life have been spent in the flow of affection among friends.

Thomas Jefferson

Flow, Affection, Hours

If your letters are as long as the bible, they will appear short to me. Only let them be brim full of affection.

Thomas Jefferson

Long, Letters, Affection

Thomas Jefferson (1830). “Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson”, p.55

Never throw off the best affections of nature in the moment when they become most precious to their object; nor fear to extend you hand to save another, lest you should sink yourself.

Thomas Jefferson

Hands, Affection, Moments