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QUOTATION:Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
ATTRIBUTION:George Washington (1732–1799), U.S. general, president. letter, Aug. 17, 1779. Quoted in Maxims of Washington, “Virtue and Vice,” (1942).
 
 
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