Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …
Part III, p. 108.
The Autobiography (1818)
“It seldom happens, however, that a great proprietor is a great improver.”
Source: (1776), Book III, Chapter IV, p. 420.
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