"The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done."

Duty, Future, Preparation, Present

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"The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done."

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"I shall never ask never refuse nor ever resign an office."

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"Nothing could be more important than that the work of a soldier is well done. No tools will make a man a skilled workmen, or master of defense, or be of any use to him who has not learned how to handle them and has never bestowed any attention on them."

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