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Poor Richard's Almanack

Book by Benjamin Franklin · 31 quotes · Poor Richard, Men, Ifs

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“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.”

“Women are books, and men the readers be, Who sometimes in those books erratas see; Yet oft the reader's raptured with each line, Fair print and paper, fraught with sense divine; Tho' some, neglectful, seldom care to read, And faithful wives no more than bibles heed. Are women books? says Hodge, then would mine were An Almanack, to change her every year.”

“It's the easiest thing in the world for a man to deceive himself.”