“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”

—  Benjamin Franklin

Source: Quoted by Gerald Gawalt in " In His Own Words: Library Exhibition Celebrates Tercentenary of Benjamin Franklin's Birth https://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/0601/franklin.html"

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American author, printer, political theorist, politician, p… 1706–1790

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