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There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom. Friendship loves a free Air, and will not be penned up in straight and narrow Enclosures. It will speak freely, and act so too and take nothing ill where no ill is meant nay, where it is, 'twill easily forgive, and forget too, upon small Acknowledgments.

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William Penn
Age: 73 †
Born: 1644
Born: October 14
Died: 1718
Died: July 30
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Philosopher
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London
England
William Penn
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