Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. ✨ Benjamin Franklin, He…

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Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. ✨ Benjamin Franklin, Henry Stueber, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress) (1794). Works of the late Dr. Benjamin Franklin: consisting of his life, written by himself : together with essays, humourous, moral & literary, chiefly in the manner of the Spectator : in two volumes
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