We are a kind of posterity in respect to them.
-- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
-- Letter to William Strahan, 1745
-- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
-- Letter to William Strahan, 1745
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- You and I were long friends: you are now my enemy, and I am yours.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) -- Letter to William... - Here you would know and enjoy what posterity will say of Washington.
For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect... - Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments.
If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear... - Youth is the trustee of posterity.
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Benjamin... - Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
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Benjamin Franklin (1706... - Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
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Benjamin... - Three can keep a secret if two of them are dead.
Benjamin... - Here Skugg lies snug
As a bug in a rug.
-- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
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Letter to Miss Georgiana Shipley, September,... - There never was a good war or a bad peace.
-- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
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Letter to Josiah Quincy, Sept. 11,...
