QuoteQuest“Let your heart feel for the affliction, and distresses of every one—and let your hand give, in proportion to your purse—remembering always, the estimation of the Widows mite. But, that it is not every one who asketh, that deserveth charity; all however are worthy of the enquiry—or the deserving may suffer.”
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Source
- Title
- Wikiquote: George Washington
- Type
- reference · Secondary source
- Held by
- Wikiquote
Context
Letter to Bushrod Washington (15 January 1783)
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Washington, George. (n.d.). Wikiquote: George Washington. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Washington
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