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Founding Fathers analysis

The Way to Wealth

This is a preface to Poor Richard Improved by Benjamin Franklin, and at the beginning of the writing he refers to his works as rambles. This is an accurate assesment because in the first few pages of this work it seems as that is all that he is doing. He is discussing his own vanity and he wishes his works were more popular. The way that he measures his success is by how much others quote his works and he goes on giving examples of people quoting Poor Richard. He procedes quoting his own work for pages possibly trying to show how useful it can be to quote his work in an effort to get others to quote it more. The work he is quoting is Poor Richard which appears to discuss how to be successful in business and in life. This work even goes as far as to set rules such as "three removes is as bad as a fire," and learning from the writing of Mary Rowlandsen three removes means moving three times. In the end of the writing Franklin brings it all together all that I ha...

Posted by: Novelett Roberts

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