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Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

“We are taxed twice as much by our Idleness, three times as much by our Pride, and four times as much by our Folly…”

  • From Benjamin Franklin’s The Autobiography and Other Writings, edited by Kenneth Silverman (Penguin Classics, 1986).

 

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