The Portable Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
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- Franklin
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- and
- private
- musings.
- The
- selections
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- organized
- chronologically
- within
- six
- sections
- that
- represent
- the
- full
- range
- of
- Franklin’s
- temperament.
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