“Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults.”

“Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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Title: Wikiquote: Benjamin Franklin
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Context

Poor Richard's Almanack (1756); this has also been quoted in a paraphrased form used by Bill Clinton in [1998 address to Beijing University, as "Our critics are our friends, they show us our faults"

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Franklin, Benjamin. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Benjamin Franklin. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin

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