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‘Diligence Is the Mother of Good Luck’

This advice from Benjamin Franklin is still fresh and valuable.
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‘Diligence Is the Mother of Good Luck’
“Franklin and Electricity,” circa 1860, by Alfred Jones, for the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Public Domain
Jeff Minick
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Benjamin Franklin’s words about diligence appeared in his “Poor Richard’s Almanac,” which he issued annually for 25 years. Almanacs were popular among 18th-century readers, and this enterprise proved his greatest commercial success. But it wasn’t just “Poor Richard’s Almanac” that brought Franklin wealth and fame.

It was, in fact, diligence.

Jeff Minick
Jeff Minick
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Jeff Minick has four children and a growing platoon of grandchildren. For 20 years, he taught history, literature, and Latin to seminars of homeschooling students in Asheville, N.C. He is the author of two novels, “Amanda Bell” and “Dust on Their Wings,” and two works of nonfiction, “Learning as I Go” and “Movies Make the Man.” Today, he lives and writes in Front Royal, Va.
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