“He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.”

Franklin himself calls this an "old maxim" when he repeats it at page 48 http://www.ushistory.org/franklin/autobiography/page48.htm of his autobiography.
Franklin's recognition of this effect caused it to be named after him. Wikipedia, Ben Franklin Effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Franklin_effect.
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American author, printer, political theorist, politician, p… 1706–1790

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