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Quote-mangling: Benjamin Franklin

15 February 2014 8:02 am \ by admin

There’s a great article in TechCrunch about the mangling of a Benjamin Franklin quote. As always, a product of laziness, lack of fact-checking and an inability to place an historical situation (or quote) in its context (and instead mindlessly applying it to a modern context).

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