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Quotation #8434 from Poor Man's College:

To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible.
Benjamin Franklin
US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790)  

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