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Franklin on Success

There’s a famous saying, of Benjamin Franklin, that “success has a thousand fathers, but failure is an orphan.”

It’s very true, and evergreen: one often comes upon new examples of this observation. Human nature has not changed, these intervening centuries, and it likely never will.

How telling, that for all our many advances, our supposed sophistication, people still fall prey to making claims that Franklin thought presumptuous hundreds of years ago.

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