Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
1460
AUTHOR:
Benjamin Franklin (1706–90)
QUOTATION:
I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge of her faults, and whether she has the virtues I imagine she has? Answer. Commend her among her female acquaintance.
ATTRIBUTION:
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, “Miscellaneous Observations,” The Works of Benjamin Franklin, ed. Jared Sparks, vol. 2, p. 550 (1836).
