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Benjamin Franklin

Note 90 — Part I (continued 6)

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This controversy evoked the following verse:

"While you, great George, for safety hunt, And sharp conductors change for blunt, The Empire's out of joint. Franklin a wiser course pursues, And all your thunder fearless views, By keeping to the point."

(Cited in Parton, op. cit., II, 217.)

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