"The genius which has freed America and poured a flood of light over Europe has returned to the bosom of the Divinity."
— 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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Mirabeau, as quoted in American Literature: An Historical Sketch, 1620–1880 by John Nichol (1882), p. 62