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The myth that young people should leave the nest at 18, never to return, started with iconic American Benjamin Franklin.

~Annalee Newitz

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How I longed to see these things; how I longed to see the Liberty Bell and walk on the streets where Thomas Jefferson, Tom Paine and Benjamin Franklin had walked.

~Burl Ives

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Historically, when Americans don't know what to do next, they go to Paris. Benjamin Franklin is like: 'What am I going to do now? I'll go to Paris!'

~Craig Ferguson

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Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money.

~Earl Wilson

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One day, I saw a statue of Benjamin Franklin, and I said to myself, 'I can do that kind of work, too.'

~Edmonia Lewis

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