Without virtue, and without integrity, the finest talents and the most…

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Without virtue, and without integrity, the finest talents and the most brilliant accomplishments can never gain the respect, and conciliate the esteem, of the truly valuable part of mankind. ✨ George Washington (1855). Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious, p.308
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