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<\/a><\/p>\nIf you know how to spend less than you get, you have the Philosophers-Stone.
\nHe that would live in peace & at ease, Must not speak all he knows, nor judge all he sees.
\nFish & Visitors stink in 3 days.
\nHe that can have Patience, can have what he will.
\nGod helps them that help themselves.
\nKeep flax from fire, and youth from gaming.
\nDiligence is the mother of Good-Luck.
\nWealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
\nHe that lives upon Hope, dies fasting.
\nDo not do what you would not have known.
\nThe good Paymaster is Lord of another man’s Purse.
\nNever praise your Cyder, Horse, or Bedfellow.
\nTis easy to see, hard to foresee.
\nIn a discreet man’s mouth, a publick thing is private.
\nLet thy maidservant be faithful, strong, and homely.
\nBargaining has neither friends nor relations.
\nAdmiration is the Daughter of Ignorance.
\nThere’s more old Drunkards than old Doctors.
\nShe that paints her face, thinks of her Tail.
\nHe that takes a wife, takes care.
\nWhy does the blind man’s wife paint herself?
\nNone preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing.
\nThe absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
\nIf wind blows on you thro’ a hole, Make your will and take care of your soul.
\nThe rotten Apple spoils his Companion.
\nDon’t throw stones at your neighbours, if your own windows are glass.
\nThe excellency of hogs is fatness, of men virtue.
\nGood wives and good plantations are made by good husbands.
\nPox take you, is no curse to some people.
\nHe that sells upon trust, loses many friends, and always wants money.
\nGifts burst rocks.
\nForce shites upon Reason’s Back.
\nLovers, Travellers, and Poets, will give money to be heard.
\nHe that speaks much, is much mistaken.
\nCreditors have better memories than debtors.
\nForwarn’d, forearm’d, unless in the case of Cuckolds, who are often forearm’d before warn’d.
\nThree things are men most liable to be cheated in, a Horse, a Wig, and a Wife.
\nHe that lives well, is learned enough.
\nPoverty, Poetry and new Titles of Honour, make Men ridiculous.
\nHe that scatters Thorns, let him not go barefoot.
\nThere’s none deceived but he that trusts.
\nGod heals, and the Doctor takes the Fees.
\nIf you desire many things, many things will seem but a few.
\nMary’s mouth costs her nothing, for she never opens it but at others expense.
\nReceive before you write, but write before you pay.
\nI saw few die of Hunger, of Eating 100000.
\nHe is no clown that drives the plow, but he that doth clownish things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Philadelphia, PA…Philadelphia, PA…Poor Richard’s Wisdom from 1736 continues Ben’s soft sell of the budding American Dream. Common Sense, Hard Work & a bit of Humor, Enjoy:) Our Favorite Founding Father is Ben Franklin. He didn’t just help found our country during the 1776 era.\u00a0 \u00a0For two generations before he helped sell concepts of Freedom, Self-Determination […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":174959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","category-quotes","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/PoorRichardBan.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=203505"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203509,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203505\/revisions\/203509"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/174959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=203505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=203505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=203505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}