The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

by Benjamin Franklin

He was very proud, dress'd like a gentleman, liv'd expensively, took much diversion and pleasure abroad, ran in debt, and neglected his business; upon which, all business left him;

The present little sacrifice of your vanity will afterwards be amply repaid.

Reading was the only amusement I allow'd myself. I spent no time in taverns, games, or frolicks of any kind;