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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.

George Washington

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To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.
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Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles.
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A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.
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Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge.
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Citizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections.
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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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Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone.
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It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
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Speak not evil of the absent, for it is unjust.
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I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.
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I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.
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One of the expedients of party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts.
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