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He snatched the lightning shaft from heaven, and the sceptre from tyrants.
Inscription for a bust of Benjamin Franklin, inventor of the lightning rod
Anne Robert Jacques Turgot
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The first duty towards children is to make them happy. If you have not made them so, you have wronged them. No other good they may get can make up for that.
Charles Buxton
Anne Robert Jacques Turgot
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Born:
May 10, 1727
Died:
March 18, 1781
(aged 53)
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