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By Benjamin Franklin
Three may keep a Secret, if two of them are dead.
- Source
- Poor Richard, 1735, 1734 · The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 2, pp. 3-12
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- Founders Online, National Archives (The Papers of Benjamin Franklin)
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From Franklin's almanac Poor Richard, 1735, printed in Philadelphia in 1734, where it stands among the sayings for July. Poor Richard is the character Franklin wrote the almanac as. In The Way to Wealth (1757) Franklin wrote that "not a tenth Part of the Wisdom was my own," but "the Gleanings I had made of the Sense of all Ages and Nations."