• The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset.

  Thomas Jefferson
  American statesman 1743-1826
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1. avoiding
2. clearest
3. shoals
4. which
5. beset

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The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset. by : Thomas Jefferson

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