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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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“Well done is better than well said.”
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“How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.”
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“He that can have patience can have what he will.”
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“Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.”
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“Diligence is the mother of good luck.”
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“If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.”
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“It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.”
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“Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.”
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“Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.”
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“The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise.”
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“If you desire many things, many things will seem few.”
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“In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.”
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“Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her.”
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“Bargaining has neither friends nor relations.”
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“If Pride leads the Van, Beggary brings up the Rear.”
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“Fear to do ill, and you need fear else.”
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“Mary's mouth cost her nothing for she never opens it but at others' expense.”
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“Pain wastes the Body, Pleasures the Understanding.”
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“Look before, or you'll find yourself behind.”
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“He that scatters thorns, let him not go barefoot.”
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“He that resolves to mend hereafter, resolves not to mend now.”
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“He that pays for work before it's done, has but a pennyworth for two pence.”
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“If you ride a horse, sit close and tight, if you ride a man, sit easy and light.”
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“A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.”
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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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“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 lie stands on one leg, truth on two.”
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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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“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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“He that cannot obey, cannot command.”
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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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“Industry pays debts, while despair increases them.”
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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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“Don't think to hunt two hares with one dog.”
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“He who multiplies riches multiplies cares.”
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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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