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congregations.
luminaries
diligent
dia...
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tithingman,
debauchery,
irreligion,
profa...
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athe...
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lapidary
ingenious,
prettily,
P...
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Solomonic
“Seest
thou
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wry
thence
deprecation,
aloft,
floated
pithily:
Socrates’ method of building an argument through gentle queries, he “dropped my abrupt contradiction” style of argument and “put on the humbler enquirer” of the Socratic method. By asking what seemed to be innocent questions, Franklin would draw people into making concessions that would gradually prove whatever point he was trying to assert.
curmudgeons
A dominant theme in Franklin’s autobiography is that of making mistakes and then making amends, as if he were a moral bookkeeper balancing his accounts.
useful services “to maintain their influence
