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On The Trail of A Tale - Part One: Benjamin Franklin's Persian Parable

Had Franklin gotten his wish...and the Parable had remained unpublished, neither its origin in the work of the 13th-century Persian poet Saadi of Shiraz nor the story I am telling you would have become known, at least not in the way we know them now.
Richard Jeffrey Newman

by Richard Jeffrey Newman

On The Trail of A Tale - Part One: Benjamin Franklin's Persian Parable
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