QuoteQuest“Much less is it adviseable for a Person to go thither [to America], who has no other Quality to recommend him but his Birth. In Europe it has indeed its Value; but it is a Commodity that cannot be carried to a worse Market than that of America, where people do not inquire concerning a Stranger, What is he? but, What can he do?”
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- Title
- Wikiquote: Benjamin Franklin
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- reference · Secondary source
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- Wikiquote
Context
March 1784 Information to Those Who Would Remove to America
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Franklin, Benjamin. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Benjamin Franklin. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin
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