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I would rather see you unlettered and unnoticed, if virtuous in practice as well as in theory, than see you the equal in glory to the great Washington.

— Henry Lee III

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To the memory of the Man, first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.

Fame in arms or art, however conspicuous, is naught, unless bottomed in virtue.

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