“Your argument is sound, nothing but sound.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Anonymous quip quoted in an essay in Logic, an Introduction (1950) by Lionel Ruby. A Benjamin Franklin quote immediately follows, so this statement was misattributed to Franklin.
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