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Maxims of George Washington
- It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
- The most liberal professions of good will are very far from being the surest marks of it.
- Good company will always be found less expensive than bad.
- By acting reciprocally, heroes have made poets and poets heroes.
- When there is no reason for expressing an opinion, it is best to be silent.
- It is easy to make acquaintances but very difficult to shake them off.
- Too much zeal creates suspicion.
- Ridicule begets enmity not easy to be forgotten but easily avoided.
- Do not conceive that fine clothes make fine men any more than fine feathers make fine birds.
- Nothing is more useful for the formation of correct habits than the turning of our comments upon others, back upon ourselves.