Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is only buying himself trouble.
— Benjamin Franklin Early Modern

Electricity experiments, founding father

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Poor Richard's Almanack

Date / Period

1747

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Humorous

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https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-03-02-0103

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