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Let experience solve it. To listen to mere speculation in such a case were criminal.
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George Washington
Age: 67 †
Born: 1732
Born: February 22
Died: 1799
Died: December 14
1St U.S. President
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The ways of Providence being inscrutable, and the justice of it not to be scanned by the shallow eye of humanity, nor to be counteracted by the utmost efforts of human power or wisdom, resignation, and as far as the strength of our reason and religion can carry us, a cheerful acquiescence to the Divine Will, is what we are to aim.
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Example, whether it be good or bad, has a powerful influence.
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I have always considered marriage as the most interesting event of one's life, the foundation of happiness or misery.
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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.
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