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One display at the exhibition noted that Franklin's first line of work was as an apprentice in a chandler's shop but, in the end, it wouldn't hold a candle to the printed word, which he so loved.
As a child, he absorbed works such as John Bunyan's "Pilgrim Progress," Plutarch's "Lives" and Anthony Collins' "A Philosophical Inquiry Concerning Human Liberty." So it was only appropriate that he would become a printing apprentice to his brother, James, whose New-England Courant was the second newspaper in the colonies.
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