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...consistent with patriotism. "I have the consolation to believe," Washington wrote in his Farewell Address, "that while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it."28 Posthumously, he is commiserated with by fellow citizens like Humphreys who are at the turn...