{"date":"October 26","id":"10-26","intro":["Poor at twenty, rich at forty, internationally famous at fifty. Benjamin Franklin once walked the streets of Philadelphia alone, poor, and with no education. Yet he rose to be a leader because he learned the secret of careful reading."],"minutes":18,"readings":[{"author":"Benjamin Franklin","end":21,"start":14,"volume":1,"work":"Autobiography"}],"slug":"october-26","status":"proofread","title":"Franklin Learned the Secret","url":"/harvard-classics/october-26/","words":3589}