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“Industry, economy, and a virtuous conduct are your surest resort, and best dependance. In every station of life, these are commendable.”
Mount Vernon. Library of Congress
To Sally Ball Haynie
Mount Vernon, 11 February 1798
Miss Salley,
I have received your letter of the 28th. of last month, and without enquiry at this time why you left Mr. Lewis’s family or how you employ your time, I have requested him to furnish you with ten pounds to supply you with such necessaries as you may be in immediate want.
But as you have no fortune to support you, Industry, economy, and a virtuous conduct are your surest resort, and best dependance. In every station of life, these are commendable. In the one in which it has pleased Providence to place you, it is indispensably necessary that they should mark all your footsteps. It is no disparagement to the first lady in the Land to be constantly employed, at some work or another; to you, it would prove, in addition to a chaste and unsullied reputation the surest means of attracting the notice of some man with whom your future fortune will be united in a Matrimonial bond and without which it would be in vain to expect a person of worth. I wish you well and am Your friend.
G:o Washington
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