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“I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.” quote by Mark Twain — Download Open image

“I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.”

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“Distinctively gentle he was, and trustworthy, and of special courtesy. His great physical strength was never used in combat, men remembered, except when needed for the defence of the weak. In the last hours, when his mind went roving over the past, he said to someone who stoody by: 'I thank god that in all my life I never struck…

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