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If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.
If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.
Approximate author period: c. 1748 AD · early modern
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- Benjamin Franklin
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- Approximate author period: c. 1748 AD · early modern
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