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This book includes Benjamin Franklin's renowned essay 'The Way to Wealth' and selections from his 'Poor Richard's Almanac', offering timeless insights into wealth accumulation, frugality, and character development.
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“Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.”
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“A good example is the best sermon.”
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“Fear God, and your enemies will fear you.”
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“The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.”
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“Great beauty, great strength, and great riches are really and truly of no great use; a right heart exceeds all”
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“A quarrelsome man has no good neighbours.”
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“One today is worth two tomorrows.”
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“An old young man, will be a young old man.”
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“Who is strong? He that can conquer his bad habits.”
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“A traveller should have a hog's nose, a deer's legs, and an ass's back.”
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“A lie stands on one leg, truth on two.”
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“One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.”
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“Tis easy to see, hard to foresee.”
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“Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose.”
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“Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.”
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“There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.”
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“Diligence is the mother of good luck, and God gives all things to industry. Work while it is called today, for you know not how much you may be hindered by tomorrow. One today is worth two tomorrows; never leave that till tomorrow which you can do to-day.”
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“There are more old drunkards than old doctors.”
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“Virtue and Happiness are Mother and Daughter.”
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“I have never seen the Philosopher's Stone that turns lead into Gold, but I have known the pursuit of it turn a Man's Gold into Lead.”
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“Better slip with foot than tongue.”
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“There's small Revenge in Words, but Words may be greatly revenged”
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“He that cannot obey, cannot command.”
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“Drive your business. Let not your business drive you.”
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“Hot things, sharp things, sweet things, cold things All rot the teeth, and make them look like old things.”
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“Many dishes many diseases, Many medicines few cures.”
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“He that takes a wife, takes care”
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“Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden,
but it is forbidden because it is hurtful.”
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“He that is rich need not live sparingly,
and he that can live sparingly need not be rich.”
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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 that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.”
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“He that lives well, is learned enough.”
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“Industry pays debts, while despair increases them.”
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“Many complain of their memory, few of their judgment.”
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“Grief for a dead Wife, and a troublesome Guest, Continues to the threshold, and there is at rest; But I mean such wives as are none of the best”
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“Some are weatherwise, some are otherwise.”
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“The poor have little; beggars, none; the rich, too much; enough, not one.”
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“It is better to take many injuries than to give one.”
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“Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason.”
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“All things are cheap to the saving, dear to the wasteful”
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“Be neither silly, nor cunning, but wise”
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“Don't think to hunt two hares with one dog.”
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“Ill customs and bad advice are seldom forgotten.”
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“If you have time don't wait for time.”
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“Evils come not, then our fears are vain; And if they do fear but augments the pain.”
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“He who multiplies riches multiplies cares.”
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“Give me yesterday's bread, this day's flesh, and last year's cider”
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“The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse.”
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“An old man in a house is a good sign.”
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“The ancients tell us what is best; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest.”
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