Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book:  Franklin, Benjamin (1839), The life and miscellaneous writings of Benjamin Franklin, Retrieved on 2012-05-17
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    17 MAY 2012

     Benjamin Franklin on Daylight Savings Time

    I say it is impossible that so sensible a people [citizens of Paris], under such circumstances, should have lived so long by the smoky, unwholesome, and enormously expensive light of candles, if they had really known that they might have had as much pure light of the sun for nothing.
    Folksonomies: environmentalism sun energy light
    Folksonomies: environmentalism sun energy light
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    Noting that the people of Paris spend much money on candles when they could simply adjust their clocks to rise with the sun.

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