Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with inf…

Benjamin Franklin
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Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. ✨ Jack Vincent, Benjamin Franklin (2010). Benjamin Franklin's the Way to Wealth, p.83, The Way to Wealth
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