... Franklin used the character Poor Richard', after the alleged author, to personify the moral codes and work ethics he wished to enforce on other Americans. For instance: Women and wine, game and deceit, make the wealth small and the wants great', describing the pleasures of his successful contemporaries, and the dissatisfaction which they tried to extinguish with further indulgences. He that ... but the colonies' destiny' . Thomas Jefferson's influence was equally important to American development, due to not only his political influence but his contributions to the world's of science, li...

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