Poor Richard: The Almanacks for the Years 1733-1758Newly set into type expressly for the members of the Limited Editions Club, 1964 - Almanacs, American - 300 pages |
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Sunny , good for haying Almanack 02 Alasanch 1733 There's more oló Drunkards than old Doctor One good Husband is worth two good Wives ; for the scareer things are , the more they'r valued . The Golden Age was never the present Age .
Sunny , good for haying Almanack 02 Alasanch 1733 There's more oló Drunkards than old Doctor One good Husband is worth two good Wives ; for the scareer things are , the more they'r valued . The Golden Age was never the present Age .
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He that wastes idly a Groat's worth of his Time per Day , one Day with another , wastes the Privilege of using 100l . each Day . He that idly loses 55. worth of time , loses 5s . and might as prudently throw 55. in the River .
He that wastes idly a Groat's worth of his Time per Day , one Day with another , wastes the Privilege of using 100l . each Day . He that idly loses 55. worth of time , loses 5s . and might as prudently throw 55. in the River .
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... as you are dead and rotten , Either write things worth reading , or do things worth the writing . Sell not virtue to purchase wealth , nor Liberty to 58 Poor Richard : 1738.
... as you are dead and rotten , Either write things worth reading , or do things worth the writing . Sell not virtue to purchase wealth , nor Liberty to 58 Poor Richard : 1738.
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| Title | Poor Richard: The Almanacks for the Years 1733-1758 Masterpieces of American literature |
| Author | Benjamin Franklin |
| Illustrated by | Norman Rockwell |
| Contributors | Van Wyck Brooks, Limited Editions Club, Sign of the Stone Book (Firm) |
| Publisher | Newly set into type expressly for the members of the Limited Editions Club, 1964 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 7 Mar 2008 |
| Length | 300 pages |
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