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Language Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
- Unless the Stream of their Importation could be turned... they will soon so outnumber us, that all the advantages we have, will not in my…
- The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.
- He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.
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