George Washington's Quote - Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be w

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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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Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. – George Washington

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Experience

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George Washington

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Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it. – George Washington

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Mercy

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George Washington

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If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War. – George Washington

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Peace

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There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and forty-eight. – Ezra Pound

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There are people who live their whole lives on the default settings, never realizing you can customize. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results. – Alfred Nobel

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Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage which it contained. – John Stuart Mill

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