QuoteQuest“If you would keep your Secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend.Up, Sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough.”
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- Title
- Wikiquote: Benjamin Franklin
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- reference · Secondary source
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Context
September 1741. “Poor Richard, 1741,” Founders Online, National Archives, accessed 27 May 2020. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 2, January 1, 1735, through December 31, 1744, ed. Leonard W. Labaree. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1961, pp. 292–300.]
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Franklin, Benjamin. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Benjamin Franklin. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin
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