As they were making their way out, they went through a narrow passage and Mather suddenly warned, "Stoop! Stoop!" Franklin, not understanding the exhortation, bumped his head on a low beam. As was his wont, Mather turned it into a homily" "Let this be a caution to you not always to hold your head so high. Stoop, young man, stoop—as you go through this world—and you will miss many hard thumps."
-Walter Isaacson, Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
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