Poor Richard: The Almanacks for the Years 1733-1758Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanacks, are a classic of American letters and were, in their day, an immensely popular and influential publication. In colonial America they were read by one out of every hundred people; in France alone they went through fifty-six editions. Many of the sayings and homilies in Poor Richard have become a permenant part of American folk wisdom. |
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... Book was not exactly done : They wrong me ; Yet , like Feasts I'd have my Books Rather be pleasing to the Guests than Cooks . Ill thrives that hapless Family that shows A Cock that's silent , and a Hen that crows : I know not which ...
... Book was not exactly done : They wrong me ; Yet , like Feasts I'd have my Books Rather be pleasing to the Guests than Cooks . Ill thrives that hapless Family that shows A Cock that's silent , and a Hen that crows : I know not which ...
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... books So God sends meat ( they say ) the devil Cooks . Approve not of him who commends all you say . By diligence and patience , the mouse bit in two the cable . Full of courtesie , full of craft . Look before , or you'll find yourself ...
... books So God sends meat ( they say ) the devil Cooks . Approve not of him who commends all you say . By diligence and patience , the mouse bit in two the cable . Full of courtesie , full of craft . Look before , or you'll find yourself ...
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... Books , and Men the Readers be , Who sometimes in those Books Erratas see ; Yet oft the Reader's raptur'd with each Line , Fair Print and Paper fraught with Sense divine ; Tho ' some neglectful seldom care to read , And faithful Wives ...
... Books , and Men the Readers be , Who sometimes in those Books Erratas see ; Yet oft the Reader's raptur'd with each Line , Fair Print and Paper fraught with Sense divine ; Tho ' some neglectful seldom care to read , And faithful Wives ...
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Anno APRIL Astrologers astronomical Benjamin Franklin Body bright chearful Comet Cont'd Dec Cont'd June Cont'd Nov Cont'd Oct Cont'd Sept Courteous READER Cyder dear Death Digits eclipsed divine drink e'er Earth Eclipses Edmund Waller Edward Young Fame Fire Folly Fools form'd Franklin Friend give Hand happy hath Heart Heav'n honest Honour Hours JANUARY Julius Cæsar JULY keep Kind READER King Labour live Love Man's MARCH Mind Money Month Moon Nature ne'er Neighbours never Night Norman Rockwell Number o'er OCTOBER OLIVER CROMWELL Pain Planets Pleasure Poor Richard says Poor Richard's Almanack Pow'r Praise Pride Publick Reason rich rise round Saturn SAUNDERS Sense SEPTEMBER shine Soul Stars sweet thee there's Things thou thro Tongue Truth twill Van Wyck Brooks Virtue Want Wealth Wife Wisdom wise World