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We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.
-Benjamin Franklin
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We Are More Thoroughly An Enlightened People,

Benjamin Franklin
We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.
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