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can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
    â€œThere was never a good war or a bad peace.”
    â€œHe that lieth down with dogs shall rise up with fleas.”
    â€œWork as if you were to live a hundred years, pray as if you were to die tomorrow.”
    â€œTo err is human, to forgive divine; to persist devilish.”
    â€œNothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”
    â€œHe that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.”
    â€œPeople who are wrapped up in themselves make small packages.”
    â€œSo convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do.”
    â€œOld boys have their playthings as well as young ones; the difference is only in the price.”
    â€œHe that teaches himself, hath a fool for his master.”
    â€œThree may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”
    â€œEarly to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.”
Clever Comebacks
    Ben Franklin also made witty remarks off the page:
    â€¢When Franklin saw a demonstration of hot-air balloons in France, another spectator asked, “What good is it?” Franklin responded, “What good is a newborn baby?”
    â€¢At the signing of the Declaration of Independence, John Hancock urged all present to sign the document, saying, “We must all hang together.” “Yes, we must indeed all hang together,” Franklin added, “Or most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.”

Must-see Muscletown
    Uncle John wondered . . . what Pennsylvania city is older than New York, but newer than England’s (Old) York?
    Town: York
    Location: York County
    Founding: 1741
    Population (2008): 41,000
    Size: 5.3 square miles
    County seat: Yes
What’s in a Name?
    Settlers who moved out of Philadelphia started the town and named it after York, England, where many of them were from originally.
Claims to Fame:
    â€¢The York Peppermint Pattie, now manufactured by Hershey ( more about that on page 284 ), was invented in York in 1940.
    â€¢The Continental Congress met in York from September 1777 to June 1778.
    â€¢During the Civil War, Penn Park in downtown York was the site of the York U.S. Army Hospital. Between July 1862, when the hospital opened, and the end of the war in 1865, more than 14,000 Union soldiers were treated there, including 2,500 from Gettysburg alone.
    â€¢In 1777, George Washington was having little success in hismilitary campaigns. So a group of disgruntled soldiers, led by Brigadier General Thomas Conway, met in York’s Golden Plough Tavern and cooked up a plot to oust Washington from his position as the head of the Revolutionary army. (They failed.) The tavern still stands today, and is the oldest building in the city.
    â€¢In the early 1900s, the York Motor Car Company built an automobile called the Pullman, a luxury car that cost between $1,500 and $3,000. (A Model T, the most popular car at the time, cost about $500.) The York company went bankrupt in 1917, but not before it launched a publicity campaign to show how durable their automobile was: in 1908, an employee drove a Pullman from York to San Francisco, California, and back. It took him a month.
    â€¢York is nicknamed “Muscletown” because, in 1932, bodybuilder and fitness advocate Bob Hoffman started the York Barbell Corporation there. He went on to become an Olympic weightlifting coach. York is now home to the USA Weightlifting Hall of Fame.
    â€¢York’s biggest employer: a Harley-Davidson motorcycle plant. Half of all Harley employees work there.
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    Quote Me
    â€œI thought it might be a good move to get into a beauty contest so I tried for Miss Pennsylvania and won. I think that helped me get noticed, at least by the people of Pennsylvania.”
    â€”Sharon Stone

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