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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... wise old man , Father Abraham , got up to speak . The people had been summoned by crier and bell and they had been plied with rum so that they were ready to pay prices they would never have offered if they had been sober . The times ...
... wise old man , Father Abraham , got up to speak . The people had been summoned by crier and bell and they had been plied with rum so that they were ready to pay prices they would never have offered if they had been sober . The times ...
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... wise . To be humble to Superiors is Duty , to Equals Courtesy , to Inferiors Nobleness . Here comes the Orator ! with his Flood of Words , and his Drop of Reason . NOVEMBER The Lying Habit is in some so strong , To Truth they know not ...
... wise . To be humble to Superiors is Duty , to Equals Courtesy , to Inferiors Nobleness . Here comes the Orator ! with his Flood of Words , and his Drop of Reason . NOVEMBER The Lying Habit is in some so strong , To Truth they know not ...
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... wise : Too late for cure , he proffers half his wealth ; Ten thousand doctors cannot give him health . Learn , wretches , learn the motions of the mind , Why you were made , for what you were design'd , And the great moral end of human ...
... wise : Too late for cure , he proffers half his wealth ; Ten thousand doctors cannot give him health . Learn , wretches , learn the motions of the mind , Why you were made , for what you were design'd , And the great moral end of human ...
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