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I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, that of an “Honest Man.”
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, that of an “Honest Man.”
Approximate author period: c. 1765 AD · early modern
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- George Washington
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- Approximate author period: c. 1765 AD · early modern
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- Thoughts: Selected from the writings of favorite authors (1901) (1901 AD)
Complete signed selection 367; printed byline: George Washington; New York: Dodge Publishing Company, 1901
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