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. (Benjamin Franklin)

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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