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• Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. -- George Washingto
• The highest bidder catches the most politicians.
• 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 grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation....
• George Washington was first in war, first in peace -- and the first to have his birthday juggled to make a long weekend.
  -- Ashley Coope...
• No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand which conducts the affairs of men more than the people of the United States.
  Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency....
• Going into a bar on Saturday night isn't much different from attending an auction.
  ..the best merchandise usually leaves with the highest bidder....