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1 " Myrnin turned away to pick up his Ben Franklin spectacles, balanced them on his nose, and looked over them to say, " Don't do drugs. I feel I ought to say that. "
2 " I'm told by my young friends that experience is much more important than books. Of course Ben Franklin had something to say about experience and fools, but even Franklin thought that a fool would learn by his experience. That has proven false in the modern world. Some people are simply unwilling to learn under any circumstances, which maybe, even then, wouldn't be so bad if they weren't so damned proud of it. "
― Nikki Giovanni ,
3 " Karl stood up and pointed at the large portraits on the wall. He swept the room from George Washington to Ben Franklin to John Adams to Thomas Jefferson. “Soldier, Printer, Lawyer, Scholar. You become a politician because the people make you one, not because you desire to be one. "
4 " When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human. "
5 " I descend from both Philadelphia Quakers and Carolina colonists whose families were separated by the Revolutionary War. That helped give me insight into the agony of Patriots who, until the British government denied their claims, had always, like Ben Franklin himself, thought of themselves as free-born Englishmen. "
