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Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Quotes: A man being sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps thro' fear of being thought to have but little.
         

A man being sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps thro' fear of being thought to have but little.


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