He that pursues two hares at once, commonly catches neither.
— Benjamin Franklin Early Modern

Electricity experiments, founding father

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Poor Richard's Almanack

Date / Period

1735

Category

Shocking

Source

https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-01-02-0012

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