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Benjamin Franklin Quotes
Great Modesty often hides great Merit.
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Poor Richard Improved (1758)
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The world oftener rewards the appearance of merit than merit itself.
Here is a field open for talent; and here, merit will a have certain favor, and industry is graced with its due reward.
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January 17, 1706 - April 17, 1790
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