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Home » Timeline Stories » Ben Franklin Quote

Ben Franklin Quote

This is when Leo was made aware of Ben Franklin. Quote from his acceptance speech in 1940 of the Franklin Medal… ‘In the year 1871, when I was about eight years old and a pupil in the public schools of the city of Ghent, Belgium, our teacher fascinated us by reciting the glorious life of Benjamin Franklin. I dared not dream, then, that some day The Franklin Institute would invite me to receive its foremost honor: The Franklin Medal.’

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