People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first.
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ベンジャミン・フランクリンが最初にそう言ったと言えば、人々はあなたの考えをより容易に受け入れてくれる。
/ (人々は権威に弱い。)
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