Fuente: Rius. Herejes, ateos y malpensados. Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial México, 2014. ISBN 9786073124966, p. 68. https://books.google.es/books?id=4TzeAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA68&dq=Los+faros+son+m%C3%A1s+%C3%BAtiles+que+las+iglesias.+Benjamin+Franklin&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjdiLPo5v_gAhU8AmMBHedhCeQQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=Los%20faros%20son%20m%C3%A1s%20%C3%BAtiles%20que%20las%20iglesias.%20Benjamin%20Franklin&f=false
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Lighthouses are more useful than churches.
Also quoted as “Lighthouses are more helpful than churches” or “A lighthouse is more useful than a church.” Although not by Franklin in this form, it may be intended as a paraphrase of something he wrote to his wife on 17 July 1757, given in a footnote on page 133 of Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin (1818). After describing a narrow escape from shipwreck he added:
The bell ringing for church, we went thither immediately, and with hearts full of gratitude, returned sincere thanks to God for the mercies we had received: were I a Roman Catholic, perhaps I should on this occasion vow to build a chapel to some saint, but as I am not, if I were to vow at all, it should be to build a light-house.
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