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The almost general mediocrity of fortune that prevails in America, obliging its people to follow some business for subsistence, those vices, that arise usually from idleness, are in a great measure prevented.
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Franklin reflects on how the economic conditions in America encourage industriousness and reduce idleness-related vices.
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