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“When an Indian Child has been brought up among us, taught our language and habituated to our Customs, yet if he goes to see his relations and makes one Indian Ramble with them, there is no perswading him ever to return, and that this is not natural to them merely as Indians, but as men, is plain from this, that when white persons of either sex have been taken prisoners young by the Indians, and lived a while among them, tho’ ransomed by their Friends, and treated with all imaginable tenderness to prevail with them to stay among the English, yet in a Short time they become disgusted with our manner of life, and the care and pains that are necessary to support it, and take the first good Opportunity of escaping again into the Woods, from whence there is no reclaiming them.”

Benjamin Franklin

Letter to London merchant Peter Collinson (9 May 1753); reported in Labaree: "Papers of Benjamin Franklin", vol 4, pp 481-482.
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“But I must own that I am much in the Dark about Light. I am not satisfy'd with the doctrine that supposes particles of matter call'd light continually driven off from the Sun's Surface, with a Swiftness so prodigious!”

Benjamin Franklin

Letter to Cadwallader Colden (23 April 1752).
Epistles

“There never was a good war or a bad peace.”

Benjamin Franklin

Letter to Josiah Quincy (11 September 1783).
Epistles

“Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today. ”

Benjamin Franklin

“Pride that dines on vanity sups on contempt.”

Benjamin Franklin

“The first degree of folly is to conceit one's self wise; the second to profess it; the third to despise counsel.”

Benjamin Franklin

“Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing. ”

Benjamin Franklin