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If they met so often to learn good things, they would certainly have learned some before this time.
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gutenberg.orgBenjamin Franklin: “If they met so often to learn good things, they would certainly have learned some before this time.”
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Franklin sarcastically suggests that if the meeting's purpose was genuine, attendees would have learned valuable lessons by now.
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