George Washington Quotes

I consider it an indubitable mark of mean-spiritedness and pitiful vanity to court applause from the pen or tongue of man.

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• I consider it an indubitable mark of mean-spiritedness and pitiful vanity to court applause from the pen or tongue of man.

  

  George Washington
  • Court
  • Vanity
  • Tongue