Benjamin Franklin, a man of many talents was born in Boston on January 17, 1706. He began developing his talent with words early in life by becoming an apprentice to his father (a printer). By the age of 17, Franklin went to Philadelphia to be another printer's assistant as well. He decided to go back home for Christmas and stayed for about two years before he returned to Philadelphia. Benjamin Franklin published the Pennsylvania Gazette at the young age of twenty-two. In the September of 1730 he wrote the Old Richard Almanac. In this almanac Franklin states "God heals, the doctor takes the fee". He was a man of great wit as displayed in many of his
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