To be content, look backward on those who possess less than yourself, not forward on those who possess more. If this does not make you content, you don't deserve to be happy.
— Benjamin Franklin Early Modern

Electricity experiments, founding father

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From a collection of lesser-known wisdom

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Unknown, likely 18th century

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