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...calendar spaces with pointed epigrams beginning " Poor Richard says ; " " chiefly," says Franklin, " such as inculcated industry and frugality as the means...honestly, as, to use here one of those proverbs, ' It ii hard for an rmpty tark to stand upright.' . . . These proverbs, which contain the wisdom of many...

...filled all the little spaces between the remarkable days in the calendar with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality...want to act always honestly, as, to use here one of these proverbs, 'it is hani for an empty sack to stand upright.' " It is hardly necessary to state...

...author to rank as "one of the most influential publications in the world; its proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality...of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue, were sown like seed all over the land." The Way to Wealth, by Benjamin Franklin, is the title of a...

...almanac came to be called Poor Richard's Almanac. "These proverbs," says Franklin, " which contain the wisdom of many ages and nations, I assembled and formed into a connected discourse, prefixed to the almanac of 1757, as the harangue of a wise old man to the people attending...

...little spaces that occurred between the remarkable days in the calendar with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality...and nations, I assembled and formed into a connected discourse, prefixed to the Almanac of 1757 as the harangue of a wise old man to the people attending...

...little spaces that occurred between the remarkable days in the calendar with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality...and nations, I assembled and formed into a connected discourse prefixed to the almanac of 1757 as the harangue of a wise old man to the people attending...

...little spaces that occurred between the remarkable days in the calendar with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality...always honestly, as, to use here one of those proverbs, /'/ is hard for an empty sack to stand upright. These proverbs, which contained the wisdom of many...

...little spaces that occurred between the remarkable days in the calendar with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality,...want, to act always honestly, as, to use here one of these proverbs, it is hard for an empty sack to stand upright. " These proverbs, which contain the...

...conveying instruction to the common people, he filled every available corner " with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and' frugality...for an empty sack to stand upright." These proverbs, very few of which were original, represent the practical wisdom of many nations and nges. In 1758 he...