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Why Benjamin Franklin Would be Wrong Today

The famous phrase “A penny saved is a penny earned” is attributed to Benjamin Franklin. A version of it does appear in his 1737 book Poor Richard’s Almanack, but it actually first appeared about 100 years earlier in a book called Outlandish Proverbs by George Herbert. Regardless of who said it first, wise people have […]
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