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Benjamin Franklin
American writer and statesman
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Reading makes a full man, meditiation a profound man, discourse a clear man.
—Benjamin Franklin, American writer and statesman, Poor Richard's Almanck, 1757

Posted on May 4, 1999 at 12:13 PM

WORDS ABOUT WORDS

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.
—Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography, 1868

Posted on July 10, 2002 at 6:08 PM

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