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Poor Richard's Almanack (1759)
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Keep the eyes wide open before marriage and half shut afterwards.
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In rivers and bad governments the lightest things swim at top.
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Dost thou love Life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.
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The noblest question in the world is What Good may I do in it?
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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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Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
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Take heed of the Vinegar of sweet Wine, and the Anger of Good-nature.
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A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
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Would you persuade, speak of Interest, not of Reason.
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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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Nothing gives an author so much pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors.
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He that pursues two hares at once, does not catch one and lets the other go.
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A brother may not be a friend, but a friend will always be a brother.
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Pride is said to be the last vice the good man gets clear of.
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Most people return small favors, acknowledge middling ones, and repay great ones with ingratitude.
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Born:
January 17, 1706
Died:
April 17, 1790
(aged 84)
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