Not to oversee workmen is to leave them your purse open. ✨ Benjamin Fr…

Benjamin Franklin
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Not to oversee workmen is to leave them your purse open. ✨ Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1809). Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ..., p.239
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