George Washington

Puzzles

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Quotes

• Which one of these four quotes is attributed to George Washington?

  • → Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
  • → Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
  • → Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
  • → Nature provides exceptions to every rule.
  
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• Pick the quote attributed to George Washington.

  • → The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.
  • → The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
  • → A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
  • → Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
  
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• Select the quotation attributed to George Washington.

  • → It is better to be alone than in bad company.
  • → We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.
  • → How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.
  • → There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy.
  
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