![]() Franklin told the story of his life, as he himself says, for the benefit of his posterity. The thing that makes Franklin's Autobiography different from every other life story of a great and successful man is just this human aspect of the account. While we are fascinated by the story, we absorb the human experience through which a strong and helpful character is building. ![]() In Franklin's Autobiography is offered not so much a ready-made formula for success, as the companionship of a real flesh and blood man of extraordinary mind and quality, whose daily walk and conversation will help us to meet our own difficulties, much as does the example of a wise and strong friend. The interesting, human, and vividly told story of one of the wisest and most useful lives in our own history, and perhaps in any history. Unknown, and like esteemed, and the dull swain Treads on it daily with his clouted shoon ![]()
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