Walter Isaacson

Benjamin Franklin: An American Life

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  • Alexandrhas quoted8 years ago
    But the most interesting thing that Franklin invented, and continually reinvented, was himself. America’s first great publicist, he was, in his life and in his writings, consciously trying to create a new American archetype. In the process, he carefully crafted his own persona, portrayed it in public, and polished it for posterity.
  • Adilbek Rustemovhas quoted5 years ago
    he was allergic to the pomp and perks of a hereditary aristocracy. Throughout his life he would refer to himself as “B. Franklin, printer.”
  • Ivan Gavrinhas quoted5 years ago
    Organizations for the
    Common Good
  • b7884690184has quoted7 years ago
    Lost time is never found again
  • b7884690184has quoted7 years ago
    that after getting the first £100, it is more easy to get the second
  • b7884690184has quoted7 years ago
    If you would keep your secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend.
  • b7884690184has quoted7 years ago
    He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged
  • b7884690184has quoted7 years ago
    people were reluctant to support a “proposer of any useful project that might be supposed to raise one’s reputation
  • b7884690184has quoted7 years ago
    The good men may do separately,” he wrote, “is small compared with what they may do collectively.”
  • b7884690184has quoted7 years ago
    Let all men know thee, but no man know thee thoroughly: Men freely ford that see the shallows
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