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The body of Ben Franklin, like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out and stripped of its lettering and gilding, lies here food for worms, but the Work shall not be lost, for it will, as he believed, appear once more in a new and more elegant edition, revised and corrected by the Author.
   Epitaph of Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), written by the inventor and politician when he was only 22, expressing his belief in reincarnation.