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• Here you would know and enjoy what posterity will say of Washington.
  For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with a thousand years....
• There never was a good war or a bad peace. -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) -- Letter to Josiah Quincy, Sept.
  11, 1773...
• We are a kind of posterity in respect to them.
  -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) -- Letter to William Strahan, 1745...
• There are several Charles IV doubloons dated 1790 here!
• Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will la
  but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes....
• There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics. -- Benjamin Disraeli
• There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics. Benjamin Disraeli, statesma
• Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments.
  If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter....
• You and I were long friends: you are now my enemy, and I am yours.
  -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) -- Letter to William Strahan, July 5, 1775...