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Benjamin Franklin on work

The sleeping fox catches no poultry.

Benjamin Franklin

“Father Abraham’s Speech,” preface to: “Poor Richard Improved, 1758,” Founders Online, National Archives, accessed 27 May 2020. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 7, October 1, 1756 through March 31, 1758, ed. Leonard W. Labaree.

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