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<\/a><\/p>\n1750
\nThere are three things extreamly hard,Steel, a Diamond and to know one’s self.
\nHunger is the best Pickle.
\nHe is Governor that governs his Passions, and he a Servant that serves them.
\nWouldst thou confound thine Enemy, be good thy self.
\nPride is as loud a Beggar as Want, and a great deal more saucy.
\nPay what you owe, and what you’re worth you’ll know.
\nMany a Man thinks he is buying Pleasure, when he is really selling himself a Slave to it.
\nHe that can bear a Reproof, and mend by it, if he is not wise, is in a fair way of being so.
\nClean your Finger, before you point at my Spots.
\nHe that spills the Rum, loses that only; He that drinks it,
\noften loses both that and himself.
\nGenius without education is like silver in the mine.
\nLittle Strokes, Fell great Oaks.
\nMany would live by their Wits, but break for want of Stock.
\nHide not your Talents, they for Use were made.
\nWhat’s a Sun-Dial in the Shade!
\nWhat signifies knowing the Names, if you know not the Natures of Things.
\nGlass, China, and Reputation, are easily crack’d, and never well mended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Philadelphia, PA…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 & Inalienable rights. From 1733 to 1758 Poor Richard’s Almanac helped create the unique American identity in a homey, common sense, aspirational way. A few […]<\/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-205991","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\/205991","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=205991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205992,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205991\/revisions\/205992"}],"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=205991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=205991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=205991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}