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An American professor, lecturer and writer Dale Carnegie wrote: "If you want to have an excellent advice how to treat people, control yourself and improve your own qualities, you should read The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, one of the most fascinating stories of the life." According to what Franklin wrote in The Autobiography, he developed and tried to implement into the life a plan of the moral perfection achievement and extermination of bad habits, based on developing skills in 13, described by him, goodnesses.
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GenreBiography and Memoir
Length7 hrs 31 mins
Narrated byStacey Patterson
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateNov 13, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin_Intro
2I. ANCESTRY AND EARLY YOUTH IN BOSTON
3II. BEGINNING LIFE AS A PRINTER
4III. ARRIVAL IN PHILADELPHIA
5IV. FIRST VISIT TO BOSTON
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6V. EARLY FRIENDS IN PHILADELPHIA
7VI. FIRST VISIT TO LONDON
8VII. BEGINNING BUSINESS IN PHILADELPHIA
9VIII. BUSINESS SUCCESS AND FIRST PUBLIC SERVICE
10IX. PLAN FOR ATTAINING MORAL PERFECTION
11X. POOR RICHARD'S ALMANAC AND OTHER ACTIVITIES
12XI. INTEREST IN PUBLIC AFFAIRS
13XII. DEFENSE OF THE PROVINCE
14XIII. PUBLIC SERVICES AND DUTIES
15XIV. ALBANY PLAN OF UNION
16XV. QUARRELS WITH THE PROPRIETARY GOVERNORS
17XVI. BRADDOCK'S EXPEDITION
18XVII. FRANKLIN'S DEFENSE OF THE FRONTIER
19XVIII. SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENTS
20XIX. AGENT OF PENNSYLVANIA IN LONDON
21The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin_Outro
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