“Here you would know and enjoy what posterity will say of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with a thousand years.”
Original source
Letter to Washington (5 March 1780); reported in ''Bartlett's Familiar Quotations'', 10th ed. (1919)
Letter to Washington (5 March 1780); reported in ''Bartlett's Familiar Quotations'', 10th ed. (1919)
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