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Ch 12: Franklin invented he HOA!!
Aside: thtas discussion about native Americans killing themselves with alcohol was.. rough

Chapter 11: He who has once done you a kindness is more likely to do it again than if you had done him the favour. Omg yes.

Why don't we learn french/Italian before Latin? Say it louder for the UK government Franklin! He also talks about innoculation being the far lesser of two evils

Based on his experience with a Dutch woman he'd like to recommend American woman are also instructed in accounting or some such as if they were to lose their husbands they could provide for their family and this is more useful than dancing

On humility: if you can't achieve it, at least convince others you have :)

Ah he's a student of Socrates. Yes, it makes sense

Chapter 9: oh he brought the first public libraries to Philly? Also the states?

Chapter 8: the commentary on the pedantic mathematician is so apt

Vegetarian, and into intermittent fasting. Fascinating stuff.

On vanity: "I give it fair quarter wherever I meet with it, being pursuaded that it is often productive of good to the possessor, and to others that are within his sphere of action".