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“When...passion begins to subside, which it assuredly will do, and yield--oftentimes too late--to more sober reflections, it serves to evince that lost is too dainty a food to live on -alone.-...More permanent & genuine happiness is to be found in the sequestered walks of connubial life than in the giddy rounds of promiscuous pleasure.' -- GEORGE WASHINGTON, Letter to Armand-Charles Tuffin, Marquis de La Rouërie, August 10, 1786.”
― Jonathan Horn, Washington's End: The Final Years and Forgotten Struggle

“In the composition of the human frame, there is a good deal of inflammable matter; however dormant it may be for a while,...when the torch is put to it, that which is -within you- may burst into a blaze.' --GEORGE WASHINGTON, Letter to Eleanor ('Nelly') Parke Custis, March 21, 1796.”
― Jonathan Horn, Washington's End: The Final Years and Forgotten Struggle

“System in all things is the soul of business.”
― Jonathan Horn, Washington's End: The Final Years and Forgotten Struggle

“The debt of nature”
― Jonathan Horn, Washington's End: The Final Years and Forgotten Struggle

“I am too well acquainted with women to give advice to any of them when they are bound for the Port of Matrimony, because I never shall advise -any one- to marry the man she does not like and because I know it is to no purpose to advise them to refrain from the man they do.' -- GEORGE WASHINGTON, Letter to Lund Washington, August 13 1783.”
― Jonathan Horn, Washington's End: The Final Years and Forgotten Struggle

“System in all things is the soul of business.' -- GEORGE WASHINGTON, Letter to James Anderson, December 21, 1797.”
― Jonathan Horn, Washington's End: The Final Years and Forgotten Struggle