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Quote DB :: Authors :: George Washington :: View Quote View Quote "My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty. Iit is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein." - Copy to Clipboard   --  George Washington Listed in: Work Add Quote To Your Quote List   Rating: 3.57  Rate Quote 7 votes submitted Your Name: Friend's Email: Sponsored Links Top 5 quotes from George Washington "Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness." "Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company." "The Nation which indulges toward another an habitual hatred or an habitual fondness is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest." "Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." "Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation." Top 5 quotes from Work "It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit." "Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field." "Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work." "Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair." "When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before."

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