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But our private interests never clashed; and all their resentment against me, and mine to them, has been on the public account.
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gutenberg.orgBenjamin Franklin: “But our private interests never clashed; and all their resentment against me, and mine to them, has been on the public…”
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Franklin notes that any resentment between him and others was based on public issues rather than personal grievances.
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