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A Bible and a newspaper in every house, a good school in every district—all studied and appreciated as they merit—are the principal support of virtue, morality and civil liberty.
A Bible and a newspaper in every house, a good school in every district—all studied and appreciated as they merit—are the principal support of virtue, morality and civil liberty.
Approximate author period: c. 1748 AD · early modern
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- Benjamin Franklin
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- Approximate author period: c. 1748 AD · early modern
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- Many Thoughts of Many Minds (1896) (1896 AD)
Bible · anthology attribution: Franklin
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