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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... Fools I have seen ten times ten , Of unlearned wise men I have seen a hundred . Three may keep a Secret , if two of ... Fool's Virtues . AUGUST Sam had the worst Wife that a Man could have , Proud , Lazy , Sot , could neither get nor ...
... Fools I have seen ten times ten , Of unlearned wise men I have seen a hundred . Three may keep a Secret , if two of ... Fool's Virtues . AUGUST Sam had the worst Wife that a Man could have , Proud , Lazy , Sot , could neither get nor ...
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... Fool is he whose Language shall Proclaim in publick , There's no God at all : What then are they , nay Fools in what degree Whose Actions shall maintain't ? Such Fools are we . Wink at small faults ; remember thou hast great ones . Eat ...
... Fool is he whose Language shall Proclaim in publick , There's no God at all : What then are they , nay Fools in what degree Whose Actions shall maintain't ? Such Fools are we . Wink at small faults ; remember thou hast great ones . Eat ...
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... fools so troublesome as those that have wit . AUGUST Has God , thou Fool ! work'd solely for thy Good , Thy Joy , thy Pastime , thy Attire , thy Food ? Who for thy Table feeds the wanton Fawn , For him as kindly spread the flow'ry Lawn ...
... fools so troublesome as those that have wit . AUGUST Has God , thou Fool ! work'd solely for thy Good , Thy Joy , thy Pastime , thy Attire , thy Food ? Who for thy Table feeds the wanton Fawn , For him as kindly spread the flow'ry Lawn ...
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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