Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the…

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Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade? ✨ Benjamin Franklin, Edmund Sears Morgan (2007). Not Your Usual Founding Father: Selected Readings from Benjamin Franklin, p.142, Yale University Press
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