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  • We may perhaps learn to deprive large masses of their gravity and give them absolute levity, for the sake of easy transport.

    Benjamin Franklin (1817). “The Private Correspondence of Benjamin Franklin ...: Comprising a Series of Letters on Miscellaneous, Literary, and Political Subjects, Written Between the Years 1753 and 1790, Illustrating the Memoirs of His Public and Private Life, and Developing the Secret History of His Political Transactions and Negociations”, p.52
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