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Account Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
- I am on this account not displeased that the Figure is not known as a Bald Eagle, but looks more like a Turkey. For the…
- Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account.
- As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
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- To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine. — Max Beerbohm
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- History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools. — Ambrose Bierce
- Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own. — Ambrose Bierce
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