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Josiah Franklin’s new house, coupled with the dwindling number of children still living with him, allows him to entertain interesting guests for dinner. “At his table,” Benjamin recalled, “he liked to have, as often as he could, some sensible friend or neighbor to converse with, and always took care to start some ingenious or useful topic for discourse which might tend to improve the minds of his children.”

I believe the parents of the Collison brothers did the same.

4.1 The Master said, "To live in the neighborhood of the Good is fine. If one does not choose to dwell among those who are Good, how will one obtain wisdom?"

子曰:「里仁為美。擇不處仁,焉得知?」

孟母三遷 (Mencius's mother moves three times): Her mother moved her house three times to find a suitable location for her child's upbringing.

Created August 20, 2026
Last edited October 27, 2026