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Thanks and compliments, however often repeated, cannot discharge our real obligations to each other or to God
Drawn from what Benjamin Franklin said
What Benjamin Franklin actually said
- Benjamin Franklin American printer, scientist and statesman (1706 to 1790)
For I do not think that thanks and compliments, though repeated weekly, can discharge our real obligations to each other, and much less those to our Creator.
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↗Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 2: letters (1860 edition)gutenberg.org
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