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But my father, in the mean time, from a view of the expense of a college education which
having so large a family he could not well afford, and the mean living many so educated
were afterwards able to obtain -- reasons that he gave to his friends in my hearing --
altered his first intention, took me from the grammar-school, and sent me to a school
for writing and arithmetic kept by a then famous man, Mr. George Brownell, very successful
in his profession generally, and that by mild, encouraging methods.
Benjamin Franklin