I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning…

Benjamin Franklin
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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first. ✨ Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818, p.2
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