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The forms adopted by Washington had the grave and simple dignity which marked all he did, and it was senseless to abandon what his faultless taste and patriotic feeling approved.
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Henry Cabot Lodge
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Lodge argues for the importance of maintaining the dignified practices established by Washington in governance.
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