“ From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books. ”
Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (1791). copy citation
| Author | Benjamin Franklin |
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| Source | The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin |
| Topic | reading books childhood |
| Date | 1791 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/20203/20203-h/20203-h.htm |
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“[15] This marble having decayed, the citizens of Boston in 1827 erected in its place a granite obelisk, twenty-one feet high, bearing the original inscription quoted in the text and another explaining the erection of the monument. II BEGINNING LIFE AS A PRINTER ROM a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books. Pleased with the Pilgrim's Progress, my first collection was of John Bunyan's works in separate little volumes. I afterward sold them to enable me to buy R. Burton's Historical Collections; they were small chapmen's books, [16] and cheap, 40 or 50 in all.”
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