"Poor Richard's Almanack" by Benjamin Franklin

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Full title: Poor Richard's Almanack. Being the choicest Morsels of Wisdom, written during the Years of the Almanack's Publication, By that well-known Savant, DR. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN of Philadelphia.

Published in MOUNT VERNON, NEW YORK, at the Sign of the PETER PAUPER PRESS, with numerous quaint Curs by an Unknown Hand in 1950.

Foreword by Paul Leicester Ford:

Courteous reader:

It is hardly Necessary to state, that Franklin did not originate all the Sayings of Poor Richard. He himself tells us, that they were the "Wisdom of many Ages and Nations." 

Any One, familiar with Bacon, Rochefoucauld, and Rabelais, as well as Others, will recognize old Friends in Some of these Sayings, while a Study of the Collections of Proverbs, made in the early part of the eighteenth Century, by Ray and Palmer, will reveal the probable Source from which Poor Richard pilfer'd. Yet, with but few Exceptions, these Maxims and Aphorisms had been filter'd through Franklin's Brain, and were ting'd with that Mother Wit, which so strongly and individually marks so Much that he said and wrote.

In excellent condition and in it's original slipcase.

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