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Benjamin Franklin Quotes
In general Mankind, since the improvement of Cookery, eat about twice as much as Nature requires.
Source:
Letter to Catherine Shipley (Philada, May 2, 1786)
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Benjamin Franklin
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Scientist, Inventor, Statesman
Born:
January 17, 1706 - April 17, 1790
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