# Benjamin Franklin


By [fhtc](https://paragraph.com/@fhtc) · 2022-08-23

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Franklin's life is full of charming stories which all young men should know -- how he sold books in Boston, and became the guest of kings in Europe; how he was made Major General Franklin, only to quit because, as he said, he was no soldier, and yet helped to organize the army that stood before the trained troops of England and Germany.

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