Ben Franklin was a little stout later in life and it was said that in Paris a young woman, tapping him on his protruding abdomen, said,'Dr. Franklin, if this were on a woman, we'd know what to think.' And Franklin replied,'Half an hour ago, Mademoiselle, it was on a woman, and now what do you think'
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In other men we faults can spy, And blame the mote that dims their eye Each little speck and blemish find To our own stronger errors blind.
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