Zegening

A Beggar asked a rich Bishop for Charity, demanding a pound. — ‘A Pound to a beggar! That would be extravagant.’ — ‘A Shilling then!’ — ‘Oh, it’s still too much!’ — ‘A twopence then or your Benediction.’ — ‘Of course, I will give you my Benediction.’ — ‘I don’t want it, for if it were worth a twopence, you wouldn’t give it me.’

Benjamin Franklin in een niet gedateerde brief aan Anne Louise Brillon (via Futility Closet)

Het prentje: Joseph Duplessis (1725-1802),  Benjamin Franklin, 1785.