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4. Resolution
1 Dingfelder, Sadie F., “Solutions to Resolution Dilution,” Monitor on Psychology 35, no. 1 (January 2004), www.apa.org/monitor/jan04/solutions.html.
5. Frugality
1 Morgan, Edmund S., Benjamin Franklin (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002), pp. 22-23.
2 Isaacson, Walter, Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003), p. 89.
3 Wright, Esmond, Franklin of Philadelphia (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1986), p. 47.
4 David Brooks as quoted in Isaacson, Benjamin Franklin: An American Life, p. 90.
6. Industry
1 American Academy of Pediatrics, “Children, Adolescents, and Television,” Pediatrics 107, no. 2 (February 2001), pp. 423-26, http://aappolicy.aappublications.org/cgi/content/full/pediatrics;107/2/423.
8. Justice
1 Morgan, Edmund, “The End of His Pragmatism,” in Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World, Page Talbott, ed. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2005), p. 300.
2 Ibid., p. 302.
9. Moderation
1 Houston, Alan, “The Man of Sense,” Humanities 27, no. 1 (January/February 2006).
2 Ibid.
3 Isaacson, Benjamin Franklin: An American Life.
4 Isaacson, Walter, “What Benjamin Franklin Means to Our Times,” in Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World, p. 2.
11. Tranquillity
1 Moskowitz, Eva, In Therapy We Trust: America’s Obsession with Self-Fulfillment (Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001).
2 Ibid., p. 219.
3 Ibid., p. 220.
4 Ibid., p. 224.
5 Ibid., p. 237.
6 The workshop was delivered by Gerry J. Aubie of Chaleur Psychological and Counseling Services Inc. The handout “The Wear and Tear Syndrome of Stress” was adapted from D. A. Tubesing, “Stress Skills Workbook: A Structured Strategy for Helping People Manage Stress More Effectively” (Duluth, MN: Whole Person Associates, 1979), p. 7.
Conclusion
1 Isaacson, “Citizen Ben’s Great Virtues.”
2 Poor Richard’s Almanack 1738.
{ABOUT THE AUTHOR}
Cameron Gunn is a prosecutor and author whose wife calls him a sloth. He lives in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, with his wife, three children, and two mentally unhinged beagles. This is his first book.