If you would not be forgotten, As soon as you are dead and rotten, Either write things worth reading, Or do things worth the writing. (Benjamin Franklin)

If you would not be forgotten, As soon as you are dead and rotten, Either write things worth reading, Or do things worth the writing.

Benjamin Franklin

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