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Benjamin Franklin did a great many notable things for his country, and made her young name to be honored in many lands as the mother of such a son. It is not the idea of this memoir to ignore that or cover it up. No; the simple idea of it is to snub those pretentious maxims of his, which he worked up with a great show of originality out of truisms that had become wearisome platitudes as early as the dispersion from Babel.
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"The Late Benjamin Franklin", The Galaxy, Vol. 10, No. 1, July 1870. Anthologized in Mark Twain's Sketches, New and Old? (1875).

 
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