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The ancients tell us what is best; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest.

Benjamin Franklin

A Benjamin Franklin Reader (ed. 1945)

The ancients tell us what is best; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest.

The ancients tell us what is best; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest.

The ancients tell us what is best; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest.

The ancients tell us what is best; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest.

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Born: January 17, 1706

Died: April 17, 1790 (aged 84)

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