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On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners.


George Mikes

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GEORGE WASHINGTON Should the States reject this excellent Constitution, the probability is, an opportunity will never ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON If in the opinion of the People, the distribution or modification of the Constitutional powers be in...
GEORGE WASHINGTON Not only do I pray for it, on the score of human dignity, but I can clearly forsee that nothing but ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON You will therefore send me none but Natives, and Men of some property, if you have them.
GEORGE WASHINGTON To morrow being the day set apart by the Honorable Congress for public Thanksgiving and Praise; and ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or...
GEORGE WASHINGTON I now make it my earnest prayer, that God would have you, and the State over which you preside, in h...
GEORGE WASHINGTON We should never despair, our Situation before has been unpromising and has changed for the better, s...
GEORGE WASHINGTON