| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 63334 |
| QUOTATION: | There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | George Washington (1732–1799), U.S. general, president. speech, Sept. 17, 1796. Farewell Address, vol. 35, The Writings of George Washington, ed. John C. Fitzpatrick (1940). |
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