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I have lived, sir, a long time; and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that God governs in the affairs of men.
I have lived, sir, a long time; and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that God governs in the affairs of men.
Approximate author period: c. 1748 AD · early modern
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- Benjamin Franklin
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- Approximate author period: c. 1748 AD · early modern
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- The Optimist’s Good Morning (1911) (1911 AD)
Complete signed selection 179; printed byline: Benjamin Franklin; Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911; printed copyright 1907
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