Benjamin Franklin - Poor Richard's Almanack (1759)

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After three days men grow weary of a wench, a guest, and rainy weather.

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Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

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Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
Dear in the sense of expensive

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Let all Men know thee, but no man know thee thoroughly: Men freely ford that see the shallows.

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Don't think so much of your own Cunning, as to forget other Men's; a Cunning Man is overmatched by a cunning Man and a Half.

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None preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing.

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Pride is said to be the last vice the good man gets clear of.

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If you would reap praise you must sow the seeds,
Gentle words and useful deeds.

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Suspicion may be no fault, but showing it may be a great one.

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Work as if you were to live a hundred years,
Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

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Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones; the difference is only in the price.

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The church, the state, and the poor, are 3 daughters which we should maintain, but not portion off.

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There are three faithful friends—an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

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A change of fortune hurts a wise man no more than a change of the moon.

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A brother may not be a friend, but a friend will always be a brother.

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Christianity commands us to pass by injuries; policy, to let them pass by us.

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A word to the wise is enough, and many words won't fill a bushel.

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The praise you take, altho' it be your due,
Will be suspected if it come from you.

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Most people return small favors, acknowledge middling ones, and repay great ones with ingratitude.

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He that pursues two hares at once, does not catch one and lets the other go.

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He's gone, and forgot nothing but to say farewell to his creditors

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Kings have long arms, but Misfortune longer: let none think themselves out of her reach.

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The creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times.

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Don't throw stones at your neighbours, if your own windows are glass.
Proverbial

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