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I have heard that nothing gives an Author so great Pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors.

Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks (1856). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.93
I have heard that nothing gives an Author so great Pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors.