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Benjamin Franklin Memoirs of the Life Writings of Benjamin Franklin

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Were I a Roman Catholic, perhaps I should on this occasion vow to build a chapel to some saint, but as I am not, if I were to vow at all, it should be to build a light-house.[Letter to his wife, 17 July 1757, after narrowly avoiding a shipwreck; often misquoted as "Lighthouses are more helpful than churches."]

Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin

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