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Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1734 ed.)
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) American poet, essayist, scholar
Article (1859-01), “The Professor at the Breakfast-Table,” Atlantic Monthly
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