Peter K. Levy
Benjamin Franklin
"If you wou'd not be forgotten
As soon as you are dead and rotten,
Either write things worth reading,
Or do things worth the writing."
— Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) Poor Richard's Almanack, 1738
Image: Ernest Hemingway writing at a desk while on safari in Africa,1953. (Photo courtesy of the John F. Kennedy Library.) [He is a prime example of a person who both wrote things worth reading and did things worth writing about.]
Benjamin Franklin
"If you wou'd not be forgotten
As soon as you are dead and rotten,
Either write things worth reading,
Or do things worth the writing."
— Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) Poor Richard's Almanack, 1738
Image: Ernest Hemingway writing at a desk while on safari in Africa,1953. (Photo courtesy of the John F. Kennedy Library.) [He is a prime example of a person who both wrote things worth reading and did things worth writing about.]