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Letter To Benjamin Franklin

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Lee Li
Mrs.Kealer
English III Period 7
24 October 2015

1.I think Franklin was the first person to be very careful.Because he is no matter what things are very strict attention to detail encountered difficulties will do their best to solve the problem“I made a little book, in which I allotted a page for each of the virtues. I ruled each page with red ink, so as to have seven columns, one for each day of the week, marking each column with a letter for the day. I crossed these columns with thirteen red lines, marking the beginning of each line with the first letter of one of the virtues, on which line, and in its proper column, I might mark, by a little black spot, every fault I found upon examination to have been committed respecting that virtue upon that day.” ( Franklin 5)Franklin's this rigorous attitude is worth our daily a person learning details determine success or failure we should pay attention to details. …show more content…

I think that the virtue of saving is the most important to Franklin. For money and material are limited, but people's desires are unlimited. When people are attracted to a certain object, if we can control ourselves, then we can make the best choice for the control of our brain.“Temperance, for example, was by some confined to eating and drinking, while by others it was extended to mean the moderating every other pleasure, appetite, inclination, or passion, bodily or mental, even to our avarice and ambition.” (Franklin 4)Every man should be the one who is to control himself, and to restrain himself from his desire. So we can know what is the most important and

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