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[as they stand on the sidewalk below Jefferson's apartment]

John Adams:
This is positively indecent!

Dr. Benjamin Franklin:
Oh, John, they're young and they're in love.

John Adams:
Not them, Franklin. Us! Standing out here, waiting for them to... I mean, what will people think?

Dr. Benjamin Franklin:
Don't worry, John. The history books will clean it up.

John Adams:
It doesn't matter. I won't be in the history books anyway, only you. Franklin did this and Franklin did that and Franklin did some other damn thing. Franklin smote the ground and out sprang George Washington, fully grown and on his horse. Franklin then electrified him with his miraculous lightning rod and the three of them - Franklin, Washington, and the horse - conducted the entire revolution by themselves.

[pause]

Dr. Benjamin Franklin:
I like it.