Like a young heir, come a little prematurely to a large inheritance, w…

George Washington
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Like a young heir, come a little prematurely to a large inheritance, we shall wanton and run riot until we have brought our reputation to the brink of ruin, and then, like him, shall have to labor with the current of opinion, when COMPELLED perhaps, to do what prudence and common policy pointed out, as plain as any problem in Euclid, in the first instance. ✨ George Washington (1872). Words of Washington, p.106
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