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Quote by George Washington
To acknowledge the receipt of letters is always proper, to remove

To acknowledge the receipt of letters is always proper, to remove doubts of their miscarriage. – George Washington

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I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man. – George Washington

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Presidents Day
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George Washington
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If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter. – George Washington

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Freedom
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George Washington
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Other Quotes from
Letters
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I am sorry.. Can only say time accelerated and skidded…. When my correspondents reproach me for tardiness, I can only say that I give as much attention to a letter as I do to anything I write, and I work at least six and sometimes sixteen hours a day. – William S. Burroughs, letter to Mother and Dad, 1959

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Letters

Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up. – Sydney Smith

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Letters

A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend. – Emily Dickinson

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Letters

The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for. – Jane Austen

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Letters

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If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practised, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point. – Ezra Pound

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Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country. – Vladimir Lenin

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power

I always loved the idea of learning martial arts, but it wasnt until I was in my 20s that I really started doing it and taking up karate. – Kelly Hu

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What youre seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and theyre directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society. – Colin Powell

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