Iam a fan of Benjamin franklins’s writings .As revealed in his book” His Autobiography”, Benjamin Franklin loved reading books from childhood.Whatever money he earned , were spent on buying books.He had great thirst for reading and would often fill his spare time savouring words from one book or other.
He started with Pilgrim’s Progress, then moved to other John Bunyans works, later he collected R Burton’s Historical collections.He was also inspired by his fathers reading habit.From his fathers library he had finished reading all books on Polemic divinity.
He loved Mather’s “Essays to do good”, which had a great influence on him.He specially loved reaing Plutarch’s Lives.He sometimes regretted the fact that he could not lay his hands on some good books , at a time when he felt great love and thirst for reading.
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