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Franklin told of something which had happened at Lancaster in Pennsylvania at a treaty between the Six Nations and Virginia in 1744. The Virginia commissioners offered to take six Indian boys and educate them at the college in Williamsburg. The Indians, after politely waiting till the next day, declined the offer. Their young men who had gone to college in the northern provinces had come back 'bad runners, ignorant of every means of living in the woods, unable to bear either cold or hunger, knew neither how to build a cabin, take a deer, or kill an enemy, spoke our languages imperfectly, were therefore neither fit for warriors, hunters, or counselors they were totally good for nothing.' But the Indians would take a dozen Virginia boys and educate them properly in the forest.Benjamin Franklin
That it is better 100 guilty persons should escape than that one innocent person should suffer, is a maxim that has been long and generally approved.
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A word to the wise is enough, and many words wont fill a bushel.
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No longer virtuous no longer free is a Maxim as true with regard to a private Person as a Common-wealth.
Benjamin Franklin
Let the Letter stay for the Post, and not the Post for the Letter
Benjamin Franklin
Prayers and Provender hinder no Journey.
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