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In his Autobiography tells the reader that though he never acquired the virtue of humility, he did acquire the appearance of it. Many disagree with this statement and would conclude that in reality as well as appearance Franklin was an ambiti ....

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... change his status. For example, fearing that Franklin might run away to sea, his father apprenticed him to an older brother, James, a printer, who published a newspaper. Knowing that his brother would not publish anything written by a boy, Franklin wrote a clever and amusing letter, signed it Silence Dogood, and slipped it under the door of the printshop at night (340). Not knowing it was Franklin who wrote the letter, James published it and this was the beginning of Franklin’s printing career. Franklin felt his brother was more of a master to him instead of a brother and therefore he took it upon himself to “assert his freedom” and b ...