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I think that a young state, like a young virgin, should modestly stay at home, and wait the application of suitors for an alliance with her; and not run about offering her amity to all the world; and hazarding their refusal. . . .

Source: Letter, 22 Sept. 1778.
-- Benjamin Franklin, (Jan 17 1706-1790), US statesman, diplomat, inventor, printer; He published Poor Richard's Almanac, 1732-57 ; invented bifocal glasses and the lightning rod.

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