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We must hang together, gentlemen...else, we shall most assuredly hang separately.
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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Chess Player
Designer
Dilettante
Diplomat
Economist
Editor
Freemason
Inventor
Journalist
Librarian
Musician
Physicist
Boston
Massachusetts
Silence Dogood
Ben Franklin
The First American
Franklin
Poor Richard
Must
Separately
Gentlemen
Gentleman
Hang
Atheism
Shall
Else
Together
Assuredly
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