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Quotation from Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania by John Dickinson
“Let us behave like dutiful children, who have received unmerited blows from a beloved parent.”
Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, Letter III (1903 Outlook Company reprint of the 1768 Boston edition, Project Gutenberg text)
The Farmer asks the colonists to address Britain with complaint mingled with affection and respect.
Citation: "Let us behave like dutiful children, who have received unmerited blows from a beloved parent." — John Dickinson, Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, Letter III (1903 Outlook Company reprint of the 1768 Boston edition, Project Gutenberg text). (id letters-from-a-farmer-in-pennsylvania-q3)
Portrait: JohnDickinson, Charles Willson Peale, Public domain.
