But they have two other Rights; those of sitting when they please, and as long as they please, in which methinks they have the advantage of your Parliament; for they cannot be dissolved by the Breath of a Minister, or sent packing as you were the other day, when it was your earnest desire to have remained longer together. β¨ Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1817). Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ..., p.150
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