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Category
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Subject
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Content
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George Washington
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Politics
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Reputation
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Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
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2
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George Washington
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General
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Friendship
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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. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
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3
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George Washington
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General
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Cities
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The tumultous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their indiscriminate violence prostrates for the time all public authority, and its consequences are sometimes extensive and terrible. Letter, 28 July 1791, to the Marquis de Lafayette.
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4
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George Washington
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Politics
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Motivation
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Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a Freeman, contending for liberty on his own ground, is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth.
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