Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin, 1791
A Boston printer's son explains how he taught himself to write, argue and get things done, with a candor and self-mockery rare in memoirs of his era.
Benjamin Franklin
1706–1790
Franklin kept a little book charting thirteen virtues and marked his daily failures against each. He admitted he never mastered Order and was proud of his humility.
Feels like ambition, humor and morality.
The trouble with trying to be humble.
In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will every now and then peep out and show itself; you will see it, perhaps, often in this history; for, even if I could conceive that I had compleatly overcome it, I should probably be proud of my humility. Books by Benjamin Franklin
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