It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
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It is better to be alone than in bad company.
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Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for, I have grown not only gray, but almost blind in the service of my country.
- March 15, 1783
To enlarge the sphere of social happiness is worthy of the benevolent design of a Masonic institution; and it is most fervently to be wished, that the conduct of every member of the fraternity, as well as those publications, that discover the principles which actuate them, may tend to convince mankind that the grand object of Masonry is to promote the happiness of the human race.
[Letter to the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, January 1793]
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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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Saya harap, saya selalu memiliki cukup keteguhan dan cukup kebajikan untuk memelihara gelar yang saya anggap paling mengagumkan, yaitu watak sebagai orang jujur.
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To persevere in one's duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny
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Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
George WashingtonGuard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
George WashingtonEvery day the increasing weight of years admonishes me more and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome.
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