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2 author names match this search. Names and uncertain attributions are preserved as recorded.

Painted portrait, circa 1785Joseph-Siffred Duplessis · Public domain

Benjamin Franklin

Printer, writer, experimenter and diplomat whose retrospective account of learning and habits sits beside concise practical maxims. Read the memoir and anthology selections as different kinds of writing.

1706 AD – 1790 AD · 325 collected ↗

BFBenjamin Franklin Wade

Benjamin Franklin Wade

Dates not recorded · 1 collected ↗