Бенжамен Франклин Quotes
Inventor, statesman
Бенжамен Франклин was inventor, statesman from the United States
“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”— Бенжамен Франклин
Franklin dropped out at 10. His father could not afford school for the fifteenth child. Everything Franklin knew, he taught himself: borrowed books, conversations with sharper minds, his own mistakes. He became a scientist, a diplomat, a writer, and one of the founders of a nation. No degree, no credentials.
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Legacy
Franklin died on April 17, 1790, at 84. About 20,000 people attended his funeral in Philadelphia, in a city of 33,000. In his will he left a thousand pounds each to Boston and Philadelphia in trust for 200 years. By 1990 the Boston fund had grown to $5 million. He was never president, but his face is on the hundred-dollar bill, and that perhaps says more about him than any title ever could.
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