What was virtue to the founders?


by Washington Examiner

Washington Examiner— Benjamin Franklin was, as the children say these days, built different. The Pennsylvanian founding father studiously maintained a chart bearing seven columns, for each day of the week, and 13 rows, one for each of 13 central virtues: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility. Each week, Franklin […]

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