There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more e…

Benjamin Franklin
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There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government. ✨ Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818, p.128
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