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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

George Washington

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Paper money has had the effect in your state that it will ever have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open the door to every species of fraud and injustice.
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We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.
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Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgement to others with modesty.
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System to all things is the soul of business. To execute properly and act maturely is the way to conduct it to your advantage.
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Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by a difference of sentiments in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought most to be deprecated.
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The great mass of our Citizens require only to understand matters rightly, to form right decisions.
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Associate yourself with men of good quality, if you esteem your own reputation; for ‘tis better to be alone than in bad company.
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Speak not evil of the absent, for it is unjust.
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Interwoven as is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts, no recommendation of mine is necessary to fortify or confirm the attachment.
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Government is not reason; it is not eloquence. It is force. And force, like fire, is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
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Few men are capable of making a continual sacrifice of all views of private interest, or advantage, to the common good.
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The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.
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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
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I rejoice in a belief that intellectual light will spring up in the dark corners of the earth.
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A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
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Every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me more and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome.
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