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Excerpt from The Life and Essays of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Carefully Collected From His Own Papers, Containing All His Miscellaneous Pieces
The succession to Dr. Franklin, at the court of F rance, was an excellent school of humility to me. On being pre mwd to any one, as the minister (1 America, the com mon-place question was, C ed sous Monsieur, qus' rm. Places Is Docteur Fmaldia P-n-is, it, you sir, who replace Dr. Franklin? I generally answered-4 No one can re plaoe him, sir; I an only his successor.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
