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  • Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy

    Want  
    Benjamin Franklin (1836). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin; Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.100
  • Cut the Wings of your Hens and Hopes, lest they lead you a weary Dance after them.

    Hope  
    Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.62, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
  • Here comes the orator with his flood of words and his drop of reason.

    Poor Richard's Almanack, Oct. 1735
  • You may delay, but time will not.

    Benjamin Franklin (1998). “Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom”, p.43, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.
  • After three days men grow weary, of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy.

    Poor Richard's Almanack, June 1733
  • A good example is the best sermon.

    Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing
  • A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.

    Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.252
  • There's many witty men whose brains can't fill their bellies.

    Men  
    Benjamin Franklin (1998). “Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom”, p.17, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.
  • When you taste honey, remember gall.

    Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.247, Barnes & Noble Publishing
  • He that takes a wife, takes care

    Care  
    Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.22, Nayika Publishing
  • The poor man must walk to get meat for his stomach, the rich man to get a stomach to his meat.

    Men  
    Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.27, Barnes & Noble Publishing
  • It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

    Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing
  • The Republican nominee-to-be, of course, is also a young man. But his approach is as old as McKinley. His party is the party of the past. His speeches are generalities from Poor Richard's Almanac. Their platform, made up of left-over Democratic planks, has the courage of our old convictions. Their pledge is a pledge to the status quo-and today there can be no status quo.

    Men  
  • If Pride leads the Van, Beggary brings up the Rear.

    Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.24, Nayika Publishing
  • Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.

    Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.17, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
  • A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

    Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.96, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
  • A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

    Benjamin Franklin (2010). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: Penn Reading Project Edition”, p.11, University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Constant dropping wears away stones

    Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1809). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.238
  • The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.

    Faults  
    Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.36, Nayika Publishing
  • Observe all men, thyself most.

    Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.56, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
  • A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.

    Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.11, Nayika Publishing
  • Men take more pains to mask than mend.

    Men  
    Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.18, Courier Corporation
  • Who is wise? He that learns from everyone.

    Wise  
    Benjamin Franklin (1976). “Poor Richard: An Almanack”, David McKay Company
  • An honest Man will receive neither Money nor Praise that is not his due.

    Men  
    Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.26, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
  • Do good to thy friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him.

    Benjamin Franklin (1849). “Poor Richard's almanac for 1850-52”, p.35
  • He is no clown that drives the plow, but he that doth clownish things.

    Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.36, Barnes & Noble Publishing
  • A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough.

    Life  
    Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.90, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
  • When the well is dry, we know the worth of water.

    Rivers  
    Benjamin Franklin (1998). “Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom”, p.53, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.
  • Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.

    Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.18, Barnes & Noble Publishing
  • The rotten apple spoils his companion.

    Benjamin Franklin (1987). “Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Choicest Morsels of Wisdom, Written During the Years of the Almanack's Publication”, p.58, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.
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