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Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

“The best public Measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous Wisdom but forc’d by the Occasion.”

  • From The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, edited by Kenneth Silverman (Penguin Classics, 1986).

 

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