Benjamin Franklin:

If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.

— Benjamin Franklin Early Modern

Electricity experiments, founding father

From a collection of lesser-known wisdom

Unknown, likely 18th century

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