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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... rich rogue , is like a fat hog , who never does good til as dead as a log . Relation without friendship , friendship without power , power without will , will without effect , effect without profit , & profit without vertue , are not ...
... rich rogue , is like a fat hog , who never does good til as dead as a log . Relation without friendship , friendship without power , power without will , will without effect , effect without profit , & profit without vertue , are not ...
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... rich need not live sparingly , and he that can live sparingly need not be rich . If you wou'd be reveng'd of your enemy , govern yourself . A wicked Hero will turn his back to an innocent coward . Laws like to Cobwebs catch small Flies ...
... rich need not live sparingly , and he that can live sparingly need not be rich . If you wou'd be reveng'd of your enemy , govern yourself . A wicked Hero will turn his back to an innocent coward . Laws like to Cobwebs catch small Flies ...
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... rich ; Discontent makes rich Men poor . Too much plenty makes Mouth dainty . [ Cont'd May On the 7th of this month , 1626 , died that great little man , Sir FRANCIS BACON ; great in his prodigious genius , parts and learning ; and ...
... rich ; Discontent makes rich Men poor . Too much plenty makes Mouth dainty . [ Cont'd May On the 7th of this month , 1626 , died that great little man , Sir FRANCIS BACON ; great in his prodigious genius , parts and learning ; and ...
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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