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When a child is born, all parents have a vision of raising a well rounded, well liked and successful child. Parents often talk about all of the possibilities a child in the United States has available to them. A new-born has the opportunity to be a doctor, lawyer ....

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.... century. With a few subtractions and additions the list of virtues may be a helpful tool in any persons life. Temperance is first on the list and is the most important of the virtues. As Franklin states, some associate temperance with eating and drinking, but this was not Franklin's intention. "Temperance first, as it tends to procure that coolness and clearness of head, which is so necessary where constant vigilance was to be kept up, and guard maintained against the unremitting attraction of ancient habits, and the force of perpetual temptations."(Perkins, pg322) This is the most important of the list of virtues. My interpretation of this is ....