| He was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments
of youth. He would not even lie. - "A New Biography of Washington," Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, February 1866 |
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| That George could refrain from telling the lie is not the remarkable feature,
but that he could do it off-hand that way. - More Maxims of Mark, Merle Johnson, 1927 I am different from Washington; I have a higher, grander standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie, but I won't. - quoted in Mark Twain, Archibald Henderson |
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