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Acquire Riches by Industry and Frugality.
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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History will also afford frequent opportunities of showing the necessity of a public religion, from its usefulness to the public the advantage of a religious character among private persons the mischiefs of superstition, and the excellency of the Christian religion above all others, ancient or modern.
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