. THE LATE BENJAMIN 

 FRANKLIN. 



["Never put off till to-morrow what you 

 can do day after to-morrow just as well." — B. 

 F.] 



THIS party was one of those 

 persons whom they call Phi- 

 losophers. He was twins, 

 being born simultaneously in two 

 different houses in the city of Boston. 

 These houses remain unto this day, 

 and have signs upon them worded 

 in accordance with the facts. The 

 signs are considered well enough to 

 have, though not necessary, because 

 the inhabitants point out the two 

 birth-places to the stranger anyhow, 

 and sometimes as often as several 

 times in the same day. The subject of this memoir was of a vicious disposi- 

 tion, and early prostituted his talents to the invention of maxims and aphorisms 



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