The Select Works of Benjamin Franklin: Including His Autobiography |
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... answer , till , by a more cir- cumstantial account , he is assured of the fact ; and he adds : " This prudence of not attempting to give reasons before one is sure of facts I learnt from one of your sex , who , as Selden tells us ...
... answer , till , by a more cir- cumstantial account , he is assured of the fact ; and he adds : " This prudence of not attempting to give reasons before one is sure of facts I learnt from one of your sex , who , as Selden tells us ...
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... answer to the interrogatories addressed to him , he said that there was not gold and silver enough in the Colonies to pay the stamp duty for one year ; that it was not true that America was protected by Great Britain , and paid no part ...
... answer to the interrogatories addressed to him , he said that there was not gold and silver enough in the Colonies to pay the stamp duty for one year ; that it was not true that America was protected by Great Britain , and paid no part ...
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... answer , though I knew he was at home , a friend of mine being with him . After intermissions of a week each , I made two more visits , and received the same answer . The last time was on a levee day , when a number of carriages were at ...
... answer , though I knew he was at home , a friend of mine being with him . After intermissions of a week each , I made two more visits , and received the same answer . The last time was on a levee day , when a number of carriages were at ...
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... answers . " The Psalms , " he tells us , " were much contracted by leaving out the repetitions ( of which I found more than I could have imagined ) and the imprecations , which appeared not to suit well the Christian doctrine of ...
... answers . " The Psalms , " he tells us , " were much contracted by leaving out the repetitions ( of which I found more than I could have imagined ) and the imprecations , which appeared not to suit well the Christian doctrine of ...
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... answer , the plaintiff is not put to his oath , or obliged to have the least regard to truth , in his bill , but is allowed to lie as much as he pleases . I do not understand this , unless it be for the encouragement of business ...
... answer , the plaintiff is not put to his oath , or obliged to have the least regard to truth , in his bill , but is allowed to lie as much as he pleases . I do not understand this , unless it be for the encouragement of business ...
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Page 361 - In short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality — that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.
Page 129 - It was the third. I had never before seen any of them. I bought it, read it over and over, and was much delighted with it. I thought the writing excellent, and wished, if possible, to imitate it.
Page 194 - I therefore filled all the little spaces that occurr'd between the remarkable days in the calendar with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality, as the means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue; it being more difficult for a man in want, to act always honestly, as, to use here one of those proverbs, it is hard for an empty sack to stand upright.
Page 213 - That, as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously.
Page 361 - The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at five in the morning or nine at night, heard by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer ; but if he sees you at a billiard-table, or hears your voice at a tavern when you should be at work, he sends for his money the next day ; demands it, before he can receive it, in a lump.
Page 139 - I went for a draught of the river water; and, being filled with one of my rolls, gave the other two to a woman and her child that came down the river in the boat with us, and were waiting to go farther. Thus...
Page 139 - Thus I went up Market Street as far as Fourth Street, passing by the door of Mr. Read, my future wife's father; when she, standing at the door, saw me, and thought I made, as I certainly did, a most awkward, ridiculous appearance.
Page 356 - But with our Industry, we must likewise be steady, settled and careful, and oversee our own Affairs with our own Eyes, and not trust too much to others; for, as Poor Richard says I never saw an oft-removed Tree, Nor yet an oft-removed Family, That throve so well as those that settled be.
Page 111 - THE BODY of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Printer, (like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out, and stript of its lettering and gilding) lies here food for worms ; yet the work itself shall not be lost, for it will (as he believed) appear once more in a new and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended by THE AUTHOR.
Page 469 - This advice, thus beat into my head, has frequently been of use to me; and I often think of it, when I see pride mortified, and misfortunes brought upon people by their carrying their heads too high.