Multitudes of poor people from England, Ireland, Scotland, and Germany, have by this means in a few years become wealthy farmers, who, in their own countries, where all the lands are fully occupied, and the wages of labour low, could never have emerged from the mean condition wherein they were born.
Franklin illustrates how immigrants can achieve wealth in America, unlike in their home countries.
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To strangers he was cold and reserved; but where he was intimate, no man indulged to more pleasantry and good humour.
Yet had I gone at 70, it would have cut off 12 of the most active years of my life, employed too in matters of the greatest importance; but whether I have been doing good or mischief, is for time to discover.
But if I were in his place, and not otherwise instructed, I should be apt to say, Take your own time, gentlemen.
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