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Benjamin Franklin: Look at your hands!--they are stained with the blood of your relations and your acquaintances.

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Look at your hands!--they are stained with the blood of your relations and your acquaintances.
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Benjamin Franklin
Missouri

Editor's note · Context

Franklin accuses the enemy of being responsible for the bloodshed among friends and family.

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