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Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack Quotes: 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.


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