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While thinking last summer how I might usefully employ some leisure hours, it occurred to me to prepare the following compilation for the benefit of the young people of Buffalo, having in view especially those who have lately graduated, or who are about to graduate from our public and other schools. It may also be interesting and not unprofitable reading to older persons who are not familiar with the details of Benjamin Franklin sbusiness career. It is for the most part an abridgment, consisting of those portions of Franklin sautobiography which may be useful for instruction and example in the conduct of business and life, and excluding many genealogical and other details and various episodes which are comparatively uninteresting, are not within the purpose of the volume, and would enhance its cost. These considerations afford, I think, a sufficient answer to the objections usually and sometimes properly made to abridgments.
(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)
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Présentation de l'éditeur
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