Poor Richard: the Almanacks for the Years 1733-1758Newly set into type & printed expressly for the Heritage Press, 1964 - Almanacs, American - 300 pages Wherein are retain'd in their entirety the author's prefaces, proverbs, verses & entertaining remarks ; together with those chronological, historical, and scientific observations which the author has illumin'd with his characteristic wit and wisdom. |
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... . If you desire many things , many things will seem but a few . Mary's mouth costs her nothing , for she never opens it but at others expence . Receive before you write , but write before you pay 4I An Almanack , & c .
... . If you desire many things , many things will seem but a few . Mary's mouth costs her nothing , for she never opens it but at others expence . Receive before you write , but write before you pay 4I An Almanack , & c .
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Benjamin Franklin. Receive before you write , but write before you pay . I saw few die of Hunger , of Eating 100000 . DECEMBER O nearer the Earth in Winter than in Summer 15046 miles , ( his Lowness and short Appearance making Winter ...
Benjamin Franklin. Receive before you write , but write before you pay . I saw few die of Hunger , of Eating 100000 . DECEMBER O nearer the Earth in Winter than in Summer 15046 miles , ( his Lowness and short Appearance making Winter ...
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... writes , His Case appears to me like honest Teague's , When he was run away with by his Legs . Phæbus , give Philo o ... write , and learn to think . If you do what you should not , you must hear what you would not . Defer not thy well ...
... writes , His Case appears to me like honest Teague's , When he was run away with by his Legs . Phæbus , give Philo o ... write , and learn to think . If you do what you should not , you must hear what you would not . Defer not thy well ...
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