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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... pains our Justice takes his faults to hide , With half that pains sure he might cure ' em quite . In success be moderate . Take this remark from Richard poor and lame , Whate'er's begun in anger ends in shame . What one relishes ...
... pains our Justice takes his faults to hide , With half that pains sure he might cure ' em quite . In success be moderate . Take this remark from Richard poor and lame , Whate'er's begun in anger ends in shame . What one relishes ...
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... pains about than to render themselves unhappy ? Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure ; nothing more bondage than too much liberty , ( or libertinism ) . Read much , but not many Books . MARCH Jack's Wife was born in Wiltshire ...
... pains about than to render themselves unhappy ? Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure ; nothing more bondage than too much liberty , ( or libertinism ) . Read much , but not many Books . MARCH Jack's Wife was born in Wiltshire ...
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... pains ; If well , the pain doth fade , the joy remains . NOVEMBER Celia's rich Side - board seldom sees the Light , Clean is her Kitchen , and her Spits are bright ; Her Knives and Spoons , all rang'd in even Rows , No Hands molest ...
... pains ; If well , the pain doth fade , the joy remains . NOVEMBER Celia's rich Side - board seldom sees the Light , Clean is her Kitchen , and her Spits are bright ; Her Knives and Spoons , all rang'd in even Rows , No Hands molest ...
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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