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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... loves to take his Range ; From whom Man learns to love , and loves to change . ♂ is disarmed , and to gone , Where Vulcan's Anvil must be struck upon . That Luna's horn'd , it cannot well be said , Since I ne'er heard that she was ...
... loves to take his Range ; From whom Man learns to love , and loves to change . ♂ is disarmed , and to gone , Where Vulcan's Anvil must be struck upon . That Luna's horn'd , it cannot well be said , Since I ne'er heard that she was ...
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... Love , there will be Love without Marriage . Lawyers , Preachers , and Tomtits Eggs , there are more of them hatch'd than come to perfection . Be neither silly , nor cunning , but wise . Neither a Fortress nor a Maidenhead will hold out ...
... Love , there will be Love without Marriage . Lawyers , Preachers , and Tomtits Eggs , there are more of them hatch'd than come to perfection . Be neither silly , nor cunning , but wise . Neither a Fortress nor a Maidenhead will hold out ...
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... love . He that falls in love with himself , will have no Rivals . Let thy Child's first Lesson be Obedience , and the second may be what thou wilt . Blessed is he that expects nothing , for he shall never be disappointed . Rather go to ...
... love . He that falls in love with himself , will have no Rivals . Let thy Child's first Lesson be Obedience , and the second may be what thou wilt . Blessed is he that expects nothing , for he shall never be disappointed . Rather go to ...
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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