Simón Bolívar, in a letter to Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette (20 March 1826), as quoted in The Hispanic American Historical Review, Vol. 1 (1918) edited by James Alexander Robertson
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I have learned with inexplicable joy that you have had the goodness to honor me with a treasure from Mount Vernon — the portrait of Washington, some of his venerable reliques, and one of the monuments of his glory, which are to be presented me at your hands in the name of the brothers of the Great Citizen, the First-Born Son of the New World. No words can set forth all the value that this gift and its embodying considerations, so glorious for me, hold in my heart.

— Simón Bolívar

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "I have learned with inexplicable joy that you have had the goodness to honor me with a treasure from Mount Vernon — the portrait of Washington, some of his venerable reliques, and one of the monuments of his glory, which are to be presented me at your hands in the name of the brothers of the Great Citizen, the First-Born Son of the New World. No words can set forth all the value that this gift and its embodying considerations, so glorious for me, hold in my heart." in the context of "Simón Bolívar, in a letter to Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette (20 March 1826), as quoted in The Hispanic American Historical Review, Vol. 1 (1918) edited by James Alexander Robertson" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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George Washington

About George Washington

George Washington (22 February 1732 – 14 December 1799) was an American military officer, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797. Appointed by the Second Continental Congress as commander of the Continental Army in June 1775, Washington led Patriot forces to victory in the American Revolutionary War and then served as president of the Constitutional Convention in 1787, which drafted and ratified the Constitution of the United States and established the American federal government. Washington has thus been called the "Father of his Country".