"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."
— Benjamin Franklin

January 1, 1970

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AphoristsEngineers from the United StatesFounding Fathers of the United States of AmericaElectrical engineersGovernors of Pennsylvania
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Letter to Washington (5 March 1780); reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)