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#62 The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

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Imagining it may be equally agreeable to you to know the circumstances of my life, many of which you are yet unacquainted with, but I sit down to write them for you. Having from the poverty and obscurity in which I was born and bred, to a state of affluence and some degree of reputation in the world. And having gone so far through life with considerable share of felicity. I actually had to look that word up. Felicity means happiness.

The conducing means I made use of My posterity may like to know. As they may find some of them suitable.

And therefore fit. To be imitated. Okay, so that's for the beginning of uh the book that I'm gonna talk to you about today, which is the autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. And the part I just read to you is actually a letter that he's writing to his son William. At the time Ben is in his sixties. And he he's kind of explicitly stating um

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