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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... tell , To him thy freedom thou dost sell . OCTOBER On T. T. who destroy'd his Landlord's fine Wood . Indulgent Nature to each kind bestows , A secret Instinct to discern its Foes : The Goose , a silly Bird , avoids the Fox ; Lambs fly ...
... tell , To him thy freedom thou dost sell . OCTOBER On T. T. who destroy'd his Landlord's fine Wood . Indulgent Nature to each kind bestows , A secret Instinct to discern its Foes : The Goose , a silly Bird , avoids the Fox ; Lambs fly ...
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... tell ; For , if she talks not , she's in Hell : If she's in Heaven , she's there unblest , Because she hates a Place of Rest . Let thy vices die before thee . Keep your eyes wide open before marriage , half shut afterwards . The ancients ...
... tell ; For , if she talks not , she's in Hell : If she's in Heaven , she's there unblest , Because she hates a Place of Rest . Let thy vices die before thee . Keep your eyes wide open before marriage , half shut afterwards . The ancients ...
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... tell him your Faults , greater to tell him his . SEPTEMBER Ah ! what is Life ? With Ills encompass'd round , Amidst our Hopes , Fate strikes the sudden Wound ; To - day the Statesman of new Honour dreams , To - morrow Death destroys his ...
... tell him your Faults , greater to tell him his . SEPTEMBER Ah ! what is Life ? With Ills encompass'd round , Amidst our Hopes , Fate strikes the sudden Wound ; To - day the Statesman of new Honour dreams , To - morrow Death destroys his ...
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