QuoteQuest“Man [is a] tool-making animal.”
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Source
- Title
- Wikiquote: Benjamin Franklin
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- reference · Secondary source
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- Wikiquote
Context
Quoted by James Boswell in The Life of Samuel Johnson, April 7, 1778 (1791)
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Franklin, Benjamin. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Benjamin Franklin. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin
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