Here you would know and enjoy what posterity will say of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with a thousand years.
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Letter to Washington (March 5, 1780); reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).Benjamin Franklin
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