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FRIEND OF SELF, FRIEND OF SOCIETY:
THE BENJAMIN FRANKLIN OF THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Franklin's memoirs, his Autobiography, project a Benjamin Franklin who is a highly self-conscious individual able to reason himself into a life of self-control, self-improvement, virtue, and multifaceted success. To what successful ends does this Franklin apply ....
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.... continually to more pleasures of recollection in the future; (6) old men, as a rule, tend to repeatedly recount their lives; (7) Franklin aims to gratify his vanity; (8) he desires to acknowledge God's part both in leading him into success and in making his efforts successful. Of these eight, (2) is merely instrumental, (8) is beyond anyone's control, (1) and (3) overlap considerably, and (4) through (7) overlap as well.
Franklin's insertion of the phrase "suitable to their own Situations" emphasizes from the start that Franklin has in mind ....
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