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Speaker 1: Poor Richard's Almanac by Benjamin Franklin, Selections from the Apothegms
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Speaker 1: and Proverbs, with a brief sketch of the Life of
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Speaker 1: Benjamin Franklin, published nineteen fourteen. This is a LibriVox recording.
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Speaker 1: by Michel Frye matt Ridge, Louisiana in November two thousand,
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Speaker 1: fifteen Poor Richard's Almanac introduction Life of Benjamin Franklin, followed
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Speaker 1: by aphorisms one through ninety nine of six hundred seventy
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Speaker 1: eight Life of Benjamin Franklin. Opposite historic Old South Church
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Speaker 1: in Boston. On January sixth, seventeen O six, was born
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Speaker 1: Benjamin Franklin. Benjamin was the fifteenth child of Josiah Franklin,
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Speaker 1: whose occupation was that of a talent o chandler or
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Speaker 1: candle maker. Business was not prosperous, and the Franklin family
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Speaker 1: was reared in very humble circumstances. As a child, Benjamin
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Speaker 1: hungered for books and knowledge. During the two years that
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Speaker 1: his father was able to send him to school, he
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Speaker 1: showed remarkable aptitude and industry, and rapidly outdistanced his fellow pupils.
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Speaker 1: The first book which Franklin read was Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress.
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Speaker 1: By trading and borrowing, he managed to secure other volumes.
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Speaker 1: His passion for reading was so intense that he attracted
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Speaker 1: the attention of a kind hearted Boston merchant, who gave
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Speaker 1: the boy access to his well stocked library. Franklin read
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Speaker 1: only books which could add to his education, and read
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Speaker 1: them with a thoroughness that extracted every bit of useful knowledge.
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Speaker 1: After leaving school, Franklin was apprenticed to his brother James
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Speaker 1: in the printing trade. His wage was very small, and
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Speaker 1: he had to live most frugally. James started a newspaper
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Speaker 1: and Benjamin set type and distributed the sheets. One day,
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Speaker 1: he anonymously contributed some verses and apothegms, and was overjoyed
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Speaker 1: to find them accepted and published. When his brother discovered
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Speaker 1: that he was the contributor, an altercation broke out between
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Speaker 1: the two, due principally to the ill temper of James.
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Speaker 1: The quarrel was finally the cause of Benjamin's leaving Boston
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Speaker 1: and going to Philadelphia. In Philadelphia, Franklin obtained work with Kymer,
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Speaker 1: a printer. His lodgings were found at the house of
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Speaker 1: mister Reid, with whose pretty daughter, Deborah, he promptly fell
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Speaker 1: in love. Missus Reed, however, counseled the two to postpone
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Speaker 1: the marriage until Franklin should earn sufficient to maintain his
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Speaker 1: own household. He was but eighteen years old at this time.
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Speaker 1: Sir William Keith, governor of the Province of Pennsylvania, became
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Speaker 1: acquainted with Franklin and offered to set him up in
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Speaker 1: the printing business. Franklin of accepted at Keith's suggestion, he
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Speaker 1: sailed to England to purchase an up to date outfit.
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Speaker 1: Arrived there, he found that Keith was without credit. His
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Speaker 1: beautiful plans went for naught, and he was stranded in
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Speaker 1: England without funds or prospects. It took him several years
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Speaker 1: to work his way back to America. When he returned,
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Speaker 1: the first news to greet Franklin was the marriage of
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Speaker 1: Deborah Reed to another man at twenty two years of age.
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Speaker 1: Franklin had not made much progress toward the goal of
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Speaker 1: his ambition, but nothing daunted, he applied himself with greater industry,
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Speaker 1: greater self sacrifice, and greater perseverance. He kept plugging away
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Speaker 1: at his trade of printer and entered into business ventures
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Speaker 1: with other men, all of which proved rapid failures. Finally,
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Speaker 1: he struck out for himself. Coincidentally, Deborah Reed's husband died
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Speaker 1: and Franklin took her to wife. The young couple had
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Speaker 1: to live on close margin for a few years. When
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Speaker 1: Franklin was twenty seven years of age, he evolved the
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Speaker 1: idea which opened the road to fame and fortune. This
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Speaker 1: was Poor Richard's Almanac. The first number had a tremendous sale.
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Speaker 1: His homely trait to common sense sayings achieved wide popularity,
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Speaker 1: and each succeeding issue found more subscribers than its predecessor.
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Speaker 1: The general recognition and respect gained for Franklin through the
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Speaker 1: Almanac gave him the opportunity to enter public life. This
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Speaker 1: sphere of activity was greatly to his liking. He held
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Speaker 1: important offices and introduced many splendid reforms into the municipal government.
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Speaker 1: Franklin's pet project was an efficient institute of learning. When
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Speaker 1: he was thirty seven years old, his plans materialized into
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Speaker 1: the founding of an academy from which has grown the
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Speaker 1: great University of Pennsylvania. The scientists of Europe were at
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Speaker 1: this time becoming aware of a mysterious force, which they
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Speaker 1: named electricity. Mushenbro Book, a German, came forth with the
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Speaker 1: discovery of the leyden Jar. Franklin immediately devoted himself to
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Speaker 1: a study of electricity. The subject proved too interesting, so
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Speaker 1: full of possibilities, that he sold out his printing business
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Speaker 1: in order to devote his entire effort to the new field.
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Speaker 1: His business started on nothing brought the handsome price of
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Speaker 1: ninety thousand dollars. When Franklin declared his belief that electricity
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Speaker 1: and lightning were identical, the whole world left. He then
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Speaker 1: made his famous kite test and proved his theory. This
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Speaker 1: demonstration gained world recognition for him as a scientist and
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Speaker 1: won him many honors. The colonies were now passing through
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Speaker 1: the turbulent period preceding the Revolutionary War. Franklin was a
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Speaker 1: foremost figure in public life, and became the Commissioner of
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Speaker 1: the Colonies to England. The first cause for provocation on
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Speaker 1: the part of the colonies was the Stamp Act, which
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Speaker 1: imposed an enormous tax on deeds. College degrees and printed matter.
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Speaker 1: England sought to meet the expenses of the French Indian
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Speaker 1: War by this tax. Franklin's efficient representation and effective pleading
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Speaker 1: secured its repeal in seventeen sixty six. However, one year later,
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Speaker 1: Parliament enacted a more obnoxious bill placing a heavy duty
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Speaker 1: on tea, glass and other commodities. Then it was that
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Speaker 1: certain indignant citizens of Boston held their Boston Tea Party
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Speaker 1: and brought upon the heads of the community they ill
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Speaker 1: considered hateful Boston Port Bill. The city was virtually put
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Speaker 1: into a state of seizure by the British under General Gauge.
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Speaker 1: This final action precipitated the crisis, and the Revolutionary War
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Speaker 1: was on. Gage made his disastrous march to Conquord and
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Speaker 1: Lexington and bunker Hill ended in a triumph for American pluck.
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Speaker 1: Although in favour of settling the dispute by arbitration, Franklin
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Speaker 1: was as zealous a patriot as any. He was a
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Speaker 1: member of the First Continental Congress and helped frame the
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Speaker 1: Declaration of Independence. Later, he went to Paris as Special
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Speaker 1: Envoy to France for the Colonies. He was received with
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Speaker 1: great acclaim and was accorded many honors. His mission of
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Speaker 1: enlisting France's aid in the struggle was completely successful. Helped
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Speaker 1: by the money of France and by the valor of
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Speaker 1: such men as Lafayette, the revolution triumphed. After an absence
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Speaker 1: from America of nine years, Franklin returned. He was given
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Speaker 1: a royal reception. Although seventy seven years old now, he
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Speaker 1: still gave his country the best that was in him
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Speaker 1: until his death on April seventeenth, seventeen ninety. At his burial,
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Speaker 1: twenty thousand persons gathered to do him respect and honor.
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Speaker 1: Franklin's life has been called the most interesting and the
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Speaker 1: most successful lived by any American, and the explanation is
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Speaker 1: found in the rule that guided him throughout his career
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Speaker 1: to go straightforward in doing what appears to be right,
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Speaker 1: leaving the consequences to providence. End of introduction. Now Here
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Speaker 1: are aphorisms one through ninety nine. One A child thinks
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Speaker 1: twenty shillings and twenty years can scarce ever be spent?
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Speaker 1: Two a cold april the barn will fill. Three A
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Speaker 1: countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
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Speaker 1: Four act uprightly and despise calumny. Dirt may stick to
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Speaker 1: a mud wall, but not to polished marble. Five. A
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Speaker 1: cipher and humility make the other figures and virtues of
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Speaker 1: tenfold value. Six. A false friend and a shadow attend
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Speaker 1: only while the sun shines. Seven. A father's a treasure,
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Speaker 1: A brother's a comfort. A friend is both. Eight. A
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Speaker 1: fat kitchen a lean will. Nine. A fine genius in
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Speaker 1: his own country is like gold in the mine. Ten.
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Speaker 1: A flatterer never seems absurd. The flattered always takes his word. Eleven.
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Speaker 1: After three days, men grow weary of a wench, a guest,
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Speaker 1: and weather rainy. Twelve. After crosses and losses, men grow
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Speaker 1: humbler and wiser. Thirteen. A full belly is the mother
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Speaker 1: of all evil. Fourteen. A full belly makes a dull brain. Fifteen.
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Speaker 1: A good example is the best sermon. Sixteen. A good
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Speaker 1: lawyer a bad neighbor. Seventeen. A good man is seldom uneasy,
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Speaker 1: an ill one never easy. Eighteen. A house without woman
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Speaker 1: and firelight is like a body without soul or sprite. Nineteen.
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Speaker 1: A lean award is better than a fat judgment. Twenty.
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Speaker 1: A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
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Speaker 1: Twenty one. A lie stands on one leg truth on two.
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Speaker 1: Twenty two. A life of leisure and a life of
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Speaker 1: laziness are two things. Twenty three. A light purse is
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Speaker 1: a heavy curse twenty four. A little house well filled,
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Speaker 1: a little field well tilled, and a little wife well
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Speaker 1: willed are great riches twenty five, but is alike ancient
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Speaker 1: twenty six. All mankind are beholden to him that is
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Speaker 1: kind to the good twenty seven. All things are cheap
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Speaker 1: to the saving, dear to the wasteful twenty eight. All
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Speaker 1: things are easy to industry, all things difficult to sloth.
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Speaker 1: Twenty nine. All would live long, but none would be old.
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Speaker 1: Thirty A long life may not be good enough, but
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Speaker 1: a good life is long enough. Thirty one. A man
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Speaker 1: in a passion rides a mad horse. Thirty two. A
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Speaker 1: man without a wife is but half a man. Thirty three.
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Speaker 1: A man without ceremony has need of great merit in
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Speaker 1: its place. Thirty four. Ambition often spends foolishly what avarice
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Speaker 1: had wickedly collected. Thirty five. A mob's a monster, heads enough,
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Speaker 1: but no brains. Thirty six. A modern wit is one
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Speaker 1: of David's fools thirty seven. An egg today is better
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Speaker 1: than a hen tomorrow. Thirty eight. An empty bag cannot
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Speaker 1: stand upright thirty nine. A new truth is a truth,
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Speaker 1: and an old error is an error, though Claude de
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Speaker 1: Pate won't allow either. Forty Anger and folly walk cheek
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Speaker 1: by Joel repentants treads on both their heels. Forty one.
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Speaker 1: Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a
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Speaker 1: good one. Forty two. Anger warms the invention, but overheats
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Speaker 1: the oven. Forty three. An honest man will receive neither
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Speaker 1: money nor praise that is not his due. Forty four.
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Speaker 1: An hundred thieves cannot strip one naked man, especially if
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Speaker 1: his skin's off. Forty five. An ill wound, but not
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Speaker 1: an ill name, may be healed. Forty six. An innocent
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Speaker 1: plow man is more worthy than a vicious prince. Forty seven.
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Speaker 1: Annoint to villain and he'll stab you. Stab him and
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Speaker 1: he'll annoint you. Forty eight. An old man in a
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Speaker 1: house is a good sign. Forty nine. An old young
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Speaker 1: man will be a young old man. Fifty An ounce
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Speaker 1: of wit that is bought is worth a pound that
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Speaker 1: is taught. Fifty one. An undutiful daughter will prove an
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Speaker 1: unmanageable wife. Fifty two. A pair of good ears will
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Speaker 1: drain dry one hundred tongues fifty three. A plowman on
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Speaker 1: his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees
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Speaker 1: fifty four. A proof not of him that commends all
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Speaker 1: you say fifty five. A quarrelsome man has no good
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Speaker 1: neighbors fifty six. A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder fifty seven.
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Speaker 1: Are you angry that others disappoint you? Remember you cannot
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Speaker 1: depend upon yourself fifty eight. As charms are a nonsense,
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Speaker 1: nonsense is a charm fifty nine esque and have is
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Speaker 1: sometimes dear buying sixty A soft tongue may strike har
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Speaker 1: lord sixty one. As pride increases, fortune declines sixty two.
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Speaker 1: As sour places meet most rubs, proud folks meet most
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Speaker 1: affronts sixty three. A temper to bear much will have
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Speaker 1: much to bear sixty four. A wicked hero will turn
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Speaker 1: his back to an innocent coward sixty five. As we
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Speaker 1: must account for every idle word, so we must for
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Speaker 1: every idol's silence. Sixty six. At a great pennyworth, pause
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Speaker 1: awhile sixty seven, a traveler should have a hog's nose,
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Speaker 1: deers legs, and an ass's back. Sixty eight. At the
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Speaker 1: working man's house, hunger looks in but dares not enter.
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Speaker 1: Sixty nine. At twenty years of age, the will reigns
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Speaker 1: at thirty, the wit at forty. The judgment seventy bad
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Speaker 1: commentators spoil the best of books. Seventy one. Bad gains
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Speaker 1: are truly losses. Seventy two. Bargaining has neither friends nor relations.
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Speaker 1: Seventy three. Be always ashamed to catch thyself idle seventy four.
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Speaker 1: Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors.
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Speaker 1: Seventy five. Beauty and folly are old companions. Seventy six.
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Speaker 1: Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being
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Speaker 1: unwilling to learn. Seventy seven. Ben beats his pate and
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Speaker 1: fancies Wit will come, but he may not. There's nobody
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Speaker 1: at home. Seventy eight. Be not negatively of what costs
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Speaker 1: thee nothing as courtesy, counsel, and countenance. Seventy nine. Be
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Speaker 1: slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing eighty better
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Speaker 1: is a little with content than much with contention. Eighty
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Speaker 1: one better slip with foot than tongue. Eighty two. Beware
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Speaker 1: beware he'll cheat without scruple, who can without fear? Eighty three.
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Speaker 1: Beware of him that is slow to anger. He is
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Speaker 1: angry for something and will not be pleased for nothing.
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Speaker 1: Eighty four. Beware of little expenses. A small leak will
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Speaker 1: sink a great ship. Eighty five. Beware of meat twice
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Speaker 1: boiled and in old foe reconciled. Eighty six. Beware of
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Speaker 1: the young doctor and the old barber. Eighty seven. Blame
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Speaker 1: al and praise al are two blockheads. Eighty eight. Blessed
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Speaker 1: is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be
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Speaker 1: disappointed eighty nine by what thou hast no need of,
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Speaker 1: and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessaries. Ninety by
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Speaker 1: diligence and patience the mouse bit in two the cable
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Speaker 1: ninety one. Calamity and prosperity are the touchstones of integrity.
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Speaker 1: Ninety two. Ceremony is not civility nor civility ceremony ninety three.
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Speaker 1: Changing countries or beds cures neither a bed manager nor
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Speaker 1: a fever. Ninety four. Cheese and salt meat should be
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Speaker 1: sparingly eat. Ninety five children and princes will quarrel for
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Speaker 1: trifles ninety six. Clean your finger before you point at
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Speaker 1: my spots ninety seven. Clearly spoken, mister Fogg, you explain
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Speaker 1: English by Greek. Ninety eight. Content and riches seldom meet together.
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Speaker 1: Riches take thou contentment I had rather ninety nine. Content
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Speaker 1: is the philosopher's stone that turns all it touches into gold.
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Speaker 1: And of Session O, Session one of Poor Richard's Almanac
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Speaker 1: by Benjamin Franklin. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain.
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Speaker 1: Read by Michel Fry that muge Louisiana aphorisms one hundred
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Speaker 1: through one hundred and ninety nine. One hundred Content makes
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Speaker 1: poor men rich, Discontent makes rich men poor. One hundred
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Speaker 1: and one. Courage would fight, but discretion won't let him.
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Speaker 1: One hundred and two. Creditors have better memories than debtors.
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Speaker 1: One hundred and three. Cut the wings of your hens
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Speaker 1: and hopes, lest they lead you to a wary dance
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Speaker 1: after them. One hundred and four. Danger is sauce for prayers.
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Speaker 1: One hundred and five. Dally not with other folks, women,
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Speaker 1: or money. One hundred and six. Death takes no bribes.
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Speaker 1: One hundred and seven Declaiming against pride is not always
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Speaker 1: a sign of humility. One hundred eight defer not thy
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Speaker 1: well doing, be not like Saint George, who is always
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Speaker 1: on horseback but never rides on. One hundred nine. Deny
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Speaker 1: self for self's sake one hundred ten. Despair ruins some
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Speaker 1: presumption many one hundred eleven. Different sets, like different clocks,
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Speaker 1: may all be near the matter, though they don't quite agree.
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Speaker 1: One hundred twelve. Diligence is the mother of good luck.
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Speaker 1: One hundred thirteen. Diligence overcomes difficulties. Sloth makes them one
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Speaker 1: hundred fourteen. Distrust and caution are the parents of security.
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Speaker 1: One hundred fifteen. Do good to thy friend, to keep him,
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Speaker 1: to thy enemy to gain him one hundred sixteen. Doing
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Speaker 1: an injury puts you below your enemy. Revenging one makes you,
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Speaker 1: but even with him forgiving it sets you above him.
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Speaker 1: One seventeen. Do not do that which you would not
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Speaker 1: have known. One hundred eighteen. Do me the favored to
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Speaker 1: deny me at once. One nineteen. Don't go to the
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Speaker 1: doctor with every distemper, nor to the lawyer with every quarrel,
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Speaker 1: nor to the pot for every thirst. One twenty. Don't
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Speaker 1: judge of men's wealth or piety by their Sunday appearances.
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Speaker 1: One twenty one. Don't misinform your doctor or your lawyer.
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Speaker 1: Don't overload gratitude. If you do, she'll kick one twenty three.
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Speaker 1: Don't think to hunt two hairs with one dog. One
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Speaker 1: twenty four. Don't throw stones at your neighbors if your
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Speaker 1: own windows are glass. One twenty five. Don't value a
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Speaker 1: man for the quality he is of, but for the
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Speaker 1: qualities he possesses. One twenty six. Dost thou love life,
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Speaker 1: then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life
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Speaker 1: is made of. One twenty seven. Drink does not drown care,
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Speaker 1: but waters it and makes it grow faster. One twenty eight.
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Speaker 1: Drink water. Put the money in your pocket, and leave
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Speaker 1: the dry belly ache in the punch bowl. One twenty nine.
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Speaker 1: Drive thy business, or it will drive thee one thirty.
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Speaker 1: Drunkenness that worst of evils, makes some men fools, some beasts,
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Speaker 1: some devils. One thirty one. Early to bed and early
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Speaker 1: to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. One
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Speaker 1: thirty two. Eat few suppers, and you'll need few medicines.
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Speaker 1: One thirty three. Eat to please thyself, but dress to
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Speaker 1: please others. One thirty four. Employ thy time well, if
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Speaker 1: thou meanest to gain leisure one thirty five. Ever since
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Speaker 1: follies have pleased, fools have been able to divert one
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Speaker 1: thirty six. Every man has assurance enough to boast of
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Speaker 1: his honesty, few of their understanding. One thirty seven. Experience
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Speaker 1: keeps a dear school, Yet fools will learn in no
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Speaker 1: other one thirty eight. Eyes and priests bear no jests.
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Speaker 1: One thirty nine. Fear God, and your enemies will fear you.
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Speaker 1: One forty Fear not death, For the sooner we die,
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Speaker 1: the longer shall we be immortal. One forty one. Fear
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Speaker 1: to do ill, and you need fear nought else. One
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Speaker 1: forty two. Fine linen girls and gold so bright. Choose
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Speaker 1: not to take by candle light. One forty three. Fish
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Speaker 1: and visitors stink in three days. One forty four. Fly
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Speaker 1: pleasures and they'll follow you. One forty five. Find pride
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Speaker 1: of dress is sure an empty curse. Ere fancy you consult,
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Speaker 1: consult your purse. One forty six. Fools make feasts, and
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Speaker 1: wise men eat them. One forty seven. Fools multiply folly.
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Speaker 1: One forty eight fools need advice most but wise men
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Speaker 1: only are the better for it. One forty nine. For
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Speaker 1: age and want, save while you may no morning sun
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Speaker 1: lasts a whole day one fifty For one poor man,
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Speaker 1: there are an hundred indigent. One fifty one for want
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Speaker 1: of a nail. The shoe is lost for want of
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Speaker 1: a shoe. The horse is lost, for want of a horse,
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Speaker 1: the rider is lost. One fifty two. Friendship cannot live
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Speaker 1: without ceremony nor without civility. One fifty three. Friendship increases
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Speaker 1: by visiting friends, but by visiting seldom. One fifty four.
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Speaker 1: Full of courtesy, full of craft. One fifty five. Generous
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Speaker 1: minds are all of kin. One fifty six. Genius without
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Speaker 1: education is like silver in the mine. One fifty seven.
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Speaker 1: Gifts burst rocks. One fifty eight. Gifts much expected are
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Speaker 1: paid not given. One fifty nine. Give me yesterday's bread,
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Speaker 1: this day's flesh, and last year's cider. One sixty glass, china,
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Speaker 1: and reputation are easily cracked and never well mended. One
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Speaker 1: sixty one. God gives all things to industry. One sixty two.
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Speaker 1: God heals, and the doctor takes the fees. One sixty three.
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Speaker 1: God helps them that help themselves one sixty four. God
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Speaker 1: parents and instructors can never be requited. One sixty five.
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Speaker 1: Good sense is a thing all need, few have, and
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Speaker 1: none think they want. One sixty six. Good wives and
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Speaker 1: good plantations are made by good husbands. One sixty seven.
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Speaker 1: Grace thou thy house, and let not that grace thee
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Speaker 1: one sixty eight. Graft good fruit all, or graft not
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Speaker 1: at all. One sixty nine. Great alms giving lessons no
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Speaker 1: man's living. One seventy. Great estates may venture more, little
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Speaker 1: boats must keep near shore one seventy one. Great famine
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Speaker 1: when wolves eat wolves one seventy two. Great good nature
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Speaker 1: without prudence is a great misfortune one seventy three. Great
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Speaker 1: marriage is coi as well as great pride one seventy four.
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Speaker 1: Great modesty often hides great merit one seventy five. Great
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Speaker 1: spenders are bad lenders. One seventy six. Great talkers little doers.
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Speaker 1: One seventy seven. Great talkers should be cropped, for they've
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Speaker 1: no need of EA. One seventy eight. Half hospitality opens
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Speaker 1: his door and shuts up his countenance one seventy nine.
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Speaker 1: Half the truth is often a great lie. One eighty half.
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Speaker 1: Wits talk much, but say little one eighty one. Happy
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Speaker 1: that nation, fortunate, that age whose history is not diverting.
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Speaker 1: One eighty two. Happy's the wooing that's not long a
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Speaker 1: doing one eighty three. Happy Tom crump ne'er sees his
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Speaker 1: own hump. One eighty four. Haste makes waste one eighty five.
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Speaker 1: Harry's smatter has a mouth for every matter. One eighty six.
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Speaker 1: Have you somewhat to do tomorrow? Do it to day?
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Speaker 1: One eighty seven. Having been poor is no shame, but
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Speaker 1: being ashamed of it is. One eighty eight. Here no
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Speaker 1: ill of a friend, nor speak any of an enemy.
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Speaker 1: One eighty nine. Here reason, or she'll make you feel her.
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Speaker 1: One ninety He does not possess wealth, it possesses him.
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Speaker 1: One ninety one. He has changed his one eyed horse
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Speaker 1: for a blind one. One ninety two. He has lost
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Speaker 1: his boots, but saved his spurs. One ninety three. He
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Speaker 1: is a governor that governs his passions, and he is
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Speaker 1: a servant that serves them. One ninety four. He is
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Speaker 1: ill clothed to his bear of virtue. One ninety five.
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Speaker 1: He is no clown that drives the plow, but he
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Speaker 1: that doth clownish things. One ninety six he is not
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Speaker 1: well bred, that cannot bear ill breeding in others. One
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Speaker 1: ninety seven, help hands, for I have no lands. One
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Speaker 1: ninety eight. He makes a foe who make suggest one
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Speaker 1: ninety nine. Here comes the orator, with his flood of
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Speaker 1: words and his drop of reason. End of Session one.
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Speaker 1: Aphorisms one hundred through one ninety nine, Session two of
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Speaker 1: Poor Richard's Almanac by Benjamin Franklin. This LibriVox recording is
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Speaker 1: in the public domain. Read by Michel Fry Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
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Speaker 1: Aphorisms two hundred through two ninety nine. Two hundred He's
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Speaker 1: a fool that cannot conceal his life wisdom to O one.
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Speaker 1: He's a fool that makes his doctor his heir. Two
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Speaker 1: O two he's gone and forgot nothing but to say
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Speaker 1: farewell to his creditors. Two O three. He's the best
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Speaker 1: physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines. Two
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Speaker 1: O four. He that best understands the world least likes it.
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Speaker 1: Two O five. He that builds before he counts the
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Speaker 1: cost acts foolishly. And he that counts before he builds
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Speaker 1: finds he did not count wisely. Two o six. He
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Speaker 1: that buys by the penny maintains not only himself but
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Speaker 1: other people. Two o seven. He that by the plow
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Speaker 1: would thrive himself must either hold or drive. Two o eight.
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Speaker 1: He that can bear a reproof and man, and by it,
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Speaker 1: if he is not wise, is in a fair way
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Speaker 1: of being so. Two o nine. He that can compose
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Speaker 1: himself is wiser than he that composes books. To ten.
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Speaker 1: He that can have patience can have what he will.
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Speaker 1: Two eleven. He that cannot bear with other people's passions
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Speaker 1: cannot govern his own. Two twelve. He that cannot obey
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Speaker 1: cannot command. To thirteen. He that can take rest is
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Speaker 1: greater than he that can take cities. To fourteen. He
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Speaker 1: that can travel well afoot keeps a good horse. Two fifteen.
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Speaker 1: He that doth what he should not, shall feel what
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Speaker 1: he would not. To sixteen. He that drinks fast pays slow.
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Speaker 1: To seventeen. He that drinks his sid alone, let him
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Speaker 1: catch his horse alone. To eighteen. He that falls in
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Speaker 1: love with himself will have no rivals. To nineteen. He
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Speaker 1: that goes far to marry will either deceive or be deceived.
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Speaker 1: To twenty. He that has the trade has an office
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Speaker 1: of profit and honor. To twenty one. He that has
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Speaker 1: not got a wife is not yet a complete man.
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Speaker 1: To twenty two. He that hath a trade hath an estate.
35:37
Speaker 1: To twenty three. He that is of opinion money will
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Speaker 1: do everything, may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
35:46
Speaker 1: To twenty four. He that is rich need not live sparingly,
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Speaker 1: And he that can live sparingly need not be rich.
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Speaker 1: To twenty five. He that lies down with dogs shall
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Speaker 1: rise up with flees. Tw twenty six. He that never
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Speaker 1: eats too much will never be lazy. To twenty seven.
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Speaker 1: He that pays for work before it's done has but
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Speaker 1: a pennyworth for twopence two twenty eight. He that pursues
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Speaker 1: two hairs at once, does not catch one, and lets
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Speaker 1: t'other go. Two twenty nine. He that resolves to mend
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Speaker 1: hereafter resolves not to mend now. Two thirty. He that
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Speaker 1: riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake
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Speaker 1: his business by night. Two thirty one. He that scatters thorns,
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Speaker 1: let him not go barefoot. Two thirty two. He that's
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Speaker 1: content hath enough. He that complains has too much. Two
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Speaker 1: thirty three. He that sells upon trust loses many friends
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Speaker 1: and always wants money two thirty four. He that sews
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Speaker 1: thorns should never go barefoot. Two thirty five. He that
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Speaker 1: speaks ill of the mayor will buy her to thirty six.
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Speaker 1: He that speaks much is much mistaken. To thirty seven.
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Speaker 1: He that spills the rum loses that only he that
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Speaker 1: drinks it often loses both that and himself. Two thirty eight.
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Speaker 1: He that takes a wife takes care two thirty nine.
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Speaker 1: He that waits upon a fortune is never sure of
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Speaker 1: a dinner. Two forty. He that won't be counseled can't
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Speaker 1: be helped. To forty one. He that would catch fish
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Speaker 1: must venture his baked to forty two. He that would
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Speaker 1: have a short lent, let him borrow money to be
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Speaker 1: repaid at easter. Two forty three. He that would live
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Speaker 1: in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows,
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Speaker 1: nor judge all he sees. Two forty four. He that
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Speaker 1: would rise at court must begin by creeping. Two forty five.
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Speaker 1: He that would travel much should eat little to forty six.
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Speaker 1: He who multiplies riches, multiplies cares. To forty seven. He
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Speaker 1: who buys had need have one hundred eyes, But one's
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Speaker 1: enough for him that sells the stuff to forty eight.
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Speaker 1: Hold your counsel before dinner. The full belly hates thinking
38:38
Speaker 1: as well as acting two forty nine. Honors change manners
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Speaker 1: two fifty Honor thy father and mother. I e live
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Speaker 1: so as to be an honor to them when they
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Speaker 1: are dead. Two fifty one. Hope and a red rag
38:57
Speaker 1: are baits for men and mackerel two fifty two. Hope
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Speaker 1: of gain lessons pain two fifty three. How few there
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Speaker 1: are who have courage enough to own their faults two
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Speaker 1: fifty four. Hunger is the best pickle two fifty five.
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Speaker 1: Hunger never saw bad bread. Two fifty six. Idleness is
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Speaker 1: the dead sea that swallows all virtues. Fifty seven. Idleness
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Speaker 1: is the greatest prodigality two fifty eight. If it were
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Speaker 1: not for the belly, the back might wear gold. Two
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Speaker 1: fifty nine. If Jack's in love, he's no judge of
39:45
Speaker 1: Jill's beauty two sixty. If man could have half his wishes,
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Speaker 1: he would double his troubles to sixty one. If passion drives,
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Speaker 1: let reason hold the reins. Two. If pride leaves the
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Speaker 1: van beggary brings up the rear to sixty three. If
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Speaker 1: thou hast wit and learning, add to it wisdom and modesty.
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Speaker 1: Two sixty four. If thou injuriest conscience, it will have
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Speaker 1: its revenge on thee to sixty five. If thou wouldst
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Speaker 1: live long, live well, for folly and wickedness shorten life.
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Speaker 1: Sixty six. If wind blows on you through a hole,
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Speaker 1: make your will and take care of your soul. To
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Speaker 1: sixty seven. If worldly goods cannot save me from death,
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Speaker 1: they ought not to hinder me my eternal life to
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Speaker 1: sixty eight. If you'd be beloved, make yourself amiable to
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Speaker 1: sixty nine. If you desire many things, many things seem
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Speaker 1: but a few two seventy If you'd have a servant
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Speaker 1: that you like, serve yourself to seventy one. If you'd
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Speaker 1: have it done, go, if not send two seventy two.
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Speaker 1: If you'd know the value of money, go and borrow
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Speaker 1: some two seventy three. If you'd lose a troublesome visitor,
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Speaker 1: lend him money two seventy four. If you do what
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Speaker 1: you would not, you must hear what you would not
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Speaker 1: two seventy five. If you have no money in your pot,
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Speaker 1: have some in your mouth. Two seventy six. If you
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Speaker 1: have time, don't wait for time two seventy seven. If
41:43
Speaker 1: you know how to spend less than you get, you
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Speaker 1: have the philosopher's stone. To seventy eight. If your head
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Speaker 1: is wax, don't walk in the sun two seventy nine.
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Speaker 1: If you ride a horse, sit close and tight. If
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Speaker 1: you ride a man, sit easy and light. Two eighty
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Speaker 1: If your riches are yours, why don't you take them
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Speaker 1: with you to the other world? To eighty one. If
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Speaker 1: you would be loved, love and be lovable to eighty two.
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Speaker 1: If you would be revenged of your enemy, govern yourself
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Speaker 1: to eighty three. If you would have guests, marry with cheer,
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Speaker 1: be so yourself, or so at least appear to eighty four.
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Speaker 1: If you would keep your secret from an enemy, tell
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Speaker 1: it not to a friend. To eighty five. If you
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Speaker 1: would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead
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Speaker 1: and rotten, either write things worth reading or do things
42:46
Speaker 1: worth writing. To eighty six. If you would reap praise,
42:52
Speaker 1: you must sow the seeds gentle words and useful deeds
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Speaker 1: to eighty seven. Ignorance leads men into a party, and
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Speaker 1: shame keeps them from getting out again. To eighty eight.
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Speaker 1: I have never seen the philosopher's stone that turns lead
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Speaker 1: into gold, But I have known the pursuit of it
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Speaker 1: turn a man's gold into lead to eighty nine. Ill
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Speaker 1: company is like a dog who dirts those most that
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Speaker 1: he loves best two ninety Ill customs and bad advice
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Speaker 1: are seldom forgotten to ninety one. A warrant she goes
43:33
Speaker 1: before rashness, who'd thought it comes sneaking after to ninety two.
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Speaker 1: Industry pays debts, despair increases them ninety three. In success
43:47
Speaker 1: be moderate two ninety four. Interest, which blinds some people,
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Speaker 1: enlightens others two ninety five. In the affairs of this world,
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Speaker 1: men are saved not by faith, but by the want
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Speaker 1: of it two ninety six. I saw a few die
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Speaker 1: of hunger, of eating one hundred thousand. Two ninety seven
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Speaker 1: Is there anything men take more pains about than to
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Speaker 1: render themselves unhappy? Two ninety eight. It is better to
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Speaker 1: take many injuries than to give one two ninety nine.
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Speaker 1: It is ill jesting with the joiner's tools, worse with
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Speaker 1: the doctors. End of section two, Section three of Poor
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Speaker 1: Richard's Almanac by Benjamin Franklin. This LibriVox recording is in
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Speaker 1: the public domain read by Michel fry Baton Muge Louisiana
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Speaker 1: aphorisms three hundred through three ninety nine. Three hundred it
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Speaker 1: is ill manners to silence a fool, and crew to
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Speaker 1: let him go on. Three o one. It is not
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Speaker 1: leisure that is not used. Three o two. It is
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Speaker 1: wise not to seek a secret, and honest not to
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Speaker 1: reveal it. Three o three. It's common for men to
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Speaker 1: give pretended reasons instead of one real one. Three o four.
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Speaker 1: It's the easiest thing in the world for a man
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Speaker 1: to deceive himself three o five. Jack little, sewed little,
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Speaker 1: and little he'll reap. Three o six. Keep flax from fire,
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Speaker 1: youth from gaming. Three o seven. Keep thou from the opportunity,
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Speaker 1: and God will keep thee from the sin. Three o eight.
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Speaker 1: Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. Three
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Speaker 1: o nine. Keep your eyes wide open before marriage have
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Speaker 1: shut afterwards three ten. Keep your mouth wet, feet dry
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Speaker 1: three eleven. Kings and bears often worry their keepers. Three twelve.
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Speaker 1: Kings have long arms, but misfortune longer. Let none think
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Speaker 1: themselves out of her reach three thirteen. Late children early
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Speaker 1: orphans three fourteen. Laws like the cobwebs catch small flies,
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Speaker 1: great ones break through before your eyes. Three fifteen. Laws
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Speaker 1: too gentle are seldom obeyed, too severe seldom executed. Three sixteen.
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Speaker 1: Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him. Three seventeen.
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Speaker 1: Learn of the skillful he that teaches himself hath a
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Speaker 1: fool for his master. Three eighteen. Lend money to an enemy,
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Speaker 1: and thou to gain him to a friend, and thou'lt
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Speaker 1: lose him. Three nineteen. Let all men know THEE, but
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Speaker 1: no men know THEE thoroughly. Men freely forward that see
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Speaker 1: the shallows. Three twenty Let every new year find you
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Speaker 1: a better man. Three twenty one. Let the child's first
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Speaker 1: lesson be obedience, and the second may be what thou wilt.
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Speaker 1: Three twenty two. Let thy discontents be thy secrets. If
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Speaker 1: the world knows them, two will despise THEE and increase them.
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Speaker 1: Three twenty three. Let thy maid servant be faithful, strong,
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Speaker 1: and homely. Three twenty four. Let thy vices die before THEE.
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Speaker 1: Three twenty five. Liberality is not giving much, but giving wisely.
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Speaker 1: Three twenty six. Light gains heavy purses. Three twenty seven.
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Speaker 1: Light healed mothers make leaden healed daughters three twenty eight.
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Speaker 1: Light purse, Heavy Heart three twenty nine. Little rogues easily
48:21
Speaker 1: become great ones three thirty Little strokes fell great oaks
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Speaker 1: three thirty one. Look before, or you'll find yourself behind
48:36
Speaker 1: three thirty two. Lost time is never found again three
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Speaker 1: thirty three. Love and be loved three thirty four. Love
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Speaker 1: cough and a smoke can't well be hid three thirty five.
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Speaker 1: Lover and lordship, hate companions three thirty six. Lovers, travelers,
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Speaker 1: and poets will give money to be heard three thirty seven.
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Speaker 1: Love well, whipwell three thirty eight. Love your enemies, for
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Speaker 1: they tell you your faults three thirty nine. Love your neighbor, yet,
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Speaker 1: don't pull down your hedge three forty Lying rides upon
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Speaker 1: death's back three forty one. Mad kings and mad bulls
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Speaker 1: are not to be held by treaties and pack thread
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Speaker 1: three forty two. Many A man's own tongue gives evidence
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Speaker 1: against his understanding three forty three. Many A man would
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Speaker 1: have been worse if his estate had been better three
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Speaker 1: forty four. Many A meal is lost for want of
49:55
Speaker 1: meat three forty five. Many complain of their memory, few
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Speaker 1: of their judgment three forty six. Many dishes, many diseases
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Speaker 1: three forty seven. Many estates are spent in the getting
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Speaker 1: three forty eight. Many foxes grow gray, but few grow good.
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Speaker 1: Three forty nine. Many have quarreled about religion that never
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Speaker 1: practiced it three fifty Many medicines, few cures. Three fifty one.
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Speaker 1: Many princes sin with David, but few repent with him.
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Speaker 1: Three fifty two. Many would live by their wits, but
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Speaker 1: break for want of stock. Three fifty three. Marry above
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Speaker 1: thy match, and doubt get a master. Three fifty four.
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Speaker 1: Marry your son when you will, but your daughter when
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Speaker 1: you can. Fifty five. Mary's mouth costs her nothing, for
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Speaker 1: she never opens it, but at other's expense. Three fifty six.
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Speaker 1: Meanness is the parent of insolence. Three fifty seven. Men
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Speaker 1: and melons are hard to know. Three fifty eight. Men
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Speaker 1: differ daily about things which are subject to sense. Is
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Speaker 1: it likely then they should agree about things invisible? Three
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Speaker 1: fifty nine Men meet mountains never three sixty Men often
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Speaker 1: mistake themselves, seldom forget themselves. Three sixty one. Men take
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Speaker 1: more pains to mask than men. Three sixty two. Money
51:49
Speaker 1: and good manners make the gentlemen. Three sixty three. Money
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Speaker 1: and man a mutual friendship. Show Man makes false money,
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Speaker 1: money makes man so three sixty four. Most fools think
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Speaker 1: they are only ignorant three sixty five. Most of the
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Speaker 1: learning in use is of no great use three sixty six.
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Speaker 1: Most people return small favors, acknowledge middling ones, and repay
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Speaker 1: great ones with ingratitude three sixty seven. Much virtue in
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Speaker 1: herbs little in men three sixty eight. Necessity has no law.
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Speaker 1: I know some attorneys of the same three sixty nine.
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Speaker 1: Necessity has no law why because it is not to
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Speaker 1: be had without money three seventy Necessity never made a
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Speaker 1: good bargain three seventy one. Ne'er take a wife till
52:55
Speaker 1: thou hast a house and a fire to put her
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Speaker 1: in three seventy two. Neglect kills injuries, revenge increases them
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Speaker 1: three seventy three. Neglect mending a small fault and twill
53:10
Speaker 1: soon be a great one three seventy four. Neither praise
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Speaker 1: nor dispraise till seven Christmases be over three seventy five.
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Speaker 1: Never entreat a servant to dwell with thee three seventy six.
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Speaker 1: Never praise your sider, horse, or bedfellow three seventy seven.
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Speaker 1: Never spare the parson's wine nor the baker's pudding three
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Speaker 1: seventy eight. Nice eagers seldom meet with a good dinner
53:44
Speaker 1: three seventy nine. Nick's passions grow fat and hearty. His
53:48
Speaker 1: understanding looks consumptive three eighty nine. Men and ten are
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Speaker 1: suicides three eighty one. No gains without pains three eighty two.
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Speaker 1: No man heir was glorious who was not laborious three
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Speaker 1: eighty three. None are deceived, but they that confide three
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Speaker 1: eighty four. None know the unfortunate, and the fortunate do
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Speaker 1: not know themselves three eighty five. None preaches better than
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Speaker 1: the ant, and she says nothing three eighty six. No
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Speaker 1: resolution repenting hereafter can be sincere three eighty seven. Nor
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Speaker 1: I in a letter, nor hand in a purse, nor
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Speaker 1: ear in the secret of another three eighty eight. Nothing
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Speaker 1: but money is sweeter than honey three eighty nine. Nothing
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Speaker 1: dries sooner than a tear three ninety Nothing humbler than
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Speaker 1: ambition when it is about to climb three ninety one.
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Speaker 1: Nothing more like a fool than a drunken man three
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Speaker 1: ninety two. Nothing so popular as goodness three ninety three.
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Speaker 1: Now I've a sheep and a cow. Everybody bids me
55:13
Speaker 1: good morrow three ninety four. No wood without bark three
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Speaker 1: ninety five. No workmen without tools, nor lawyer without fools
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Speaker 1: can live by their rules three ninety six. Observe all
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Speaker 1: men thyself most three ninety seven. Observe old vellum. He
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Speaker 1: praises former times as if he'd a mind to sell
55:40
Speaker 1: em three ninety eight. Of learned fools I have seen
55:45
Speaker 1: ten times ten of unlearned wise men, I have seen
55:49
Speaker 1: a hundred three ninety nine O lazy bones? Dost thou
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Speaker 1: think God would have given thee arms and legs if
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Speaker 1: he had not designed Thou should st use them? End
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Speaker 1: of section three, Section four of Poor Richard's Almanac by
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Speaker 1: Benjamin Franklin. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain.
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Speaker 1: Read by Michel Frye at Baton Ridge, Louisiana. Aphorisms four
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Speaker 1: hundred through four ninety nine. Four hundred old boys have
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Speaker 1: their playthings as well as young ones. The difference is
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Speaker 1: only in the price four oh one old, young and
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Speaker 1: old long four O two one good husband is worth
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Speaker 1: two good wives. For the scarcer things are, the more
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Speaker 1: they are valued. Four O three one may be more
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Speaker 1: cunning than another, but not more cunning than everybody else.
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Speaker 1: Four O four. One men's fault is worth two find faults,
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Speaker 1: but one find fault is better than two make faults.
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Speaker 1: Four O five. One today is worth two tomorrows. Four
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Speaker 1: O six. Onions can make even airs and widows weep.
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Speaker 1: Four O seven. Pain wastes the body, pleasures the understanding
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Speaker 1: four O eight. Pardoning the bad is injuring the good.
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Speaker 1: Four O nine. Patience in market is worth pounds in
57:33
Speaker 1: a year. Four ten. Pay what you owe and you'll
57:38
Speaker 1: know what's your own. Four eleven. Philosophy, as well as foppery,
57:44
Speaker 1: often changes fashion. Four twelve. Plow deep while sluggards sleep
57:52
Speaker 1: four thirteen. Polio, who values nothing that's within, buys books
57:58
Speaker 1: as men hunt beavers for their skin. Four fourteen. Poor
58:04
Speaker 1: dick eats like a well man and drinks like a
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Speaker 1: sick four fifteen. Poor plain dealing dead without issue. Four sixteen. Poverty,
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Speaker 1: poetry and new titles of honor make men ridiculous. Four seventeen.
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Speaker 1: Poverty wants some things, luxury, many things, avarice all things
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Speaker 1: for eighteen. Praise to the undeserving is severe satire four nineteen.
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Speaker 1: Pray don't burn my house to roast your eggs four twenty.
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Speaker 1: Prayers and provender hinder no journey. Four twenty one. Presumption
58:53
Speaker 1: first blinds a man, then sets him a running four
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Speaker 1: twenty two. Prutty and witty will wound if they hitch
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Speaker 1: ye four twenty three. Pride and the gout are seldom
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Speaker 1: cured throughout four twenty four. Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined
59:15
Speaker 1: with poverty, supt with infamy four twenty five. Pride dines
59:23
Speaker 1: upon vanity, septs on contempt. For twenty six. Pride is
59:29
Speaker 1: as loud a beggar, as want and a great deal
59:32
Speaker 1: more saucy for twenty seven. Pride gets into the coach
59:39
Speaker 1: and shame mounts behind for twenty eight. Proclaim not all
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Speaker 1: thou knowest, all thou owest, all thou hast, nor all
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Speaker 1: thou canst for twenty nine. Prodigality of time produces poverty
59:57
Speaker 1: of mind as well as of estate. Four thirty. Promises
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Speaker 1: may get thee friends, but non performance will turn them
1:00:07
Speaker 1: into enemies. Four thirty one. Proud modern learning despises the
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Speaker 1: ancient schoolmen are now laughed at by schoolboys. Four thirty two.
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Speaker 1: Quarrels never could last long if on one side, only
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Speaker 1: lay the wrong four thirty three. Rather go to bed
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Speaker 1: supperless than run in debt for a breakfast four thirty four.
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Speaker 1: Reading makes a full man, meditation, a profound man, discourse
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Speaker 1: a clear man. Four thirty five. Read much, but not
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Speaker 1: many books four thirty six. Retirement does not always secure virtue.
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Speaker 1: Lot was upright in the city, wicked in the mountain
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Speaker 1: four thirty seven. Rob not for burnt offerings. Four thirty eight.
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Speaker 1: Rob not God nor the poor, lest thou ruin thyself.
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Speaker 1: The eagles snatched a coal from the altar, but it
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Speaker 1: fired her nest four thirty nine. Samson, with his strong body,
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Speaker 1: had a weak head, or he would not have laid
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Speaker 1: in a harlot's lap four forty Saying and doing have
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Speaker 1: quarreled and parted four forty one. Search others for their virtues,
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Speaker 1: thyself for thy vices four forty two. Sell not virtue
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Speaker 1: to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power. Four forty three.
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Speaker 1: Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling
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Speaker 1: is ever a mark of folly four forty four. Silks
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Speaker 1: and satins put out the kitchen fire four forty five.
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Speaker 1: Since thou art not sure of a minute, throw not
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Speaker 1: away an hour. Four forty six. Singularity in the right
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Speaker 1: hath ruined many happy those who are convinced of the
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Speaker 1: general opinion four forty seven. Sleep without supping, and you'll
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Speaker 1: rise without owing for it four forty eight. Sloth and
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Speaker 1: silence are a fool's virtues four forty nine. Sloth like
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Speaker 1: rust consumes faster than labor weares. The used key is
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Speaker 1: always bright four fifty Snowy winter, a plentiful harvest four
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Speaker 1: fifty one. Some are justly laughed at for keeping their
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Speaker 1: money foolishly, others for spending it idly. He is the
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Speaker 1: greatest fool that lays it out in a purchase of
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Speaker 1: repentance four fifty two. Some are weather wise, some are
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Speaker 1: otherwise four fifty three. Some make conscience of wearing a
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Speaker 1: hat in the church, who make none of robbing the altar.
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Speaker 1: Four fifty four. Sorrow is good for nothing but sin
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Speaker 1: four fifty five. Spare and have is better than spend
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Speaker 1: and grave four fifty six. Speak and speed. The closed
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Speaker 1: mouth catches no flies four fifty seven. Speak little, do
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Speaker 1: much four fifty eight. Speak with contempt of none. From
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Speaker 1: slave to king, the meanest bee hath and will use
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Speaker 1: a sting four fifty nine. Strange that a man who
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Speaker 1: has wit enough to write a satire should have folly
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Speaker 1: enough to publish four sixty Strange that he who lives
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Speaker 1: by shifts can seldom shift himself. Four sixty one. Strive
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Speaker 1: to be the greatest man in your country, and you
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Speaker 1: may be disappointed. Strive to be the best, and you
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Speaker 1: may succeed. He may well win the race that runs
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Speaker 1: by himself. Four sixty two. Success has ruined many a man.
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Speaker 1: For sixty three. Sudden power is apt to be insolvent.
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Speaker 1: Sudden liberty, saucy that behaves best, which has grown gradually.
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Speaker 1: Four sixty four. Suspicion may be no fault, but showing
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Speaker 1: it may be a great one. Four sixty five. Take
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Speaker 1: counsel in wine, but resolve afterwards in water. For sixty six,
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Speaker 1: take courage. Mortal death can't banish thee out of the universe.
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Speaker 1: Four sixty seven. Take heed of the vinegar of sweet
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Speaker 1: wine and the anger of good nature. For sixty eight,
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Speaker 1: take this remark from Richard Poor and lame. Whatever is
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Speaker 1: begun in anger ends in shame. For sixty nine. Talking
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Speaker 1: against religion is unchaining a tiger. The beast let loose,
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Speaker 1: may worry his deliverer. Four seventy Tart words make no friends.
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Speaker 1: A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a
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Speaker 1: gallon of vinegar. Four seventy one. Teach your child to
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Speaker 1: hold his tongue. He'll learn fast enough to speak. Four
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Speaker 1: seventy two. Tell a miser he's rich, and a woman
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Speaker 1: she's old. He'll get no money of one, nor kindness
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Speaker 1: of t'other. Four seventy three. Tell me my faults, and
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Speaker 1: mend your own. For seventy four. The absent are never
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Speaker 1: without fault, nor the presence without excuse. For seventy five,
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Speaker 1: the ancients tell us what is best, but we must
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Speaker 1: learn of the moderns what is fittest. For seventy six.
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Speaker 1: The bell calls others to church, but itself never minds
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Speaker 1: the sermon. For seventy seven, the bird that sits is
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Speaker 1: easily shot. For seventy eight, the brave and the wise
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Speaker 1: can both pity and excuse when cowards and fools show
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Speaker 1: no mercy. For seventy nine, the busy man has few
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Speaker 1: idle visitors to the boiling pot. The flies come not.
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Speaker 1: For eighty the cat in gloves catches no mice for
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Speaker 1: eighty one. The creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers
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Speaker 1: of set days and times for eighty two. The cunning
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Speaker 1: man steals a horse, the wise man lets him alone.
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Speaker 1: Four ninety three. The devil sweetens poison with honey for
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Speaker 1: eighty four. The discontented man finds no easy chair four
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Speaker 1: eighty five. The doors of wisdom are never shut for
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Speaker 1: eighty six. The end of passion is the beginning of
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Speaker 1: repentance for eighty seven. The excellency of hogs is fatness
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Speaker 1: of men virtue for eighty eight. The eye of a
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Speaker 1: master will do more work than his hand four eighty nine.
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Speaker 1: The family of fools is ancient four ninety The favor
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Speaker 1: of the great is no inheritance four ninety one. The
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Speaker 1: generous mind least regards money, and yet most feels the
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Speaker 1: want of it four ninety two. The golden age never
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Speaker 1: was the present age four ninety three. The good pay
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Speaker 1: master is lord of another man's purse four ninety four.
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Speaker 1: The good or ill hap of a good or ill
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Speaker 1: life is the good or ill choice of a good
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Speaker 1: or ill wife four ninety five. The heart of the
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Speaker 1: fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of the
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Speaker 1: wise man is in his heart four ninety six. The heathens,
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Speaker 1: when they died, went to bed without a candle for
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Speaker 1: ninety seven. The honest man takes pains and then enjoys pleasures.
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Speaker 1: The knave takes pleasures and then suffers pains four ninety eight.
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Speaker 1: The honey is sweet, but the bee has a sting
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Speaker 1: four ninety nine. The horse thinks one thing, and he
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Speaker 1: that saddles him another end of section four, section five
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Speaker 1: of Poor Richard's Almanac by Benjamin Franklin. This LibriVox recording
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Speaker 1: is in the public domain. Read by Michel Frye batin Ridge, Louisiana.
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Speaker 1: Aphorisms five hundred through five ninety nine. Five hundred. The
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Speaker 1: idle man is the devil's hireling, whose livery is rags,
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Speaker 1: whose diet and wages are famine and diseases. Five O one.
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Speaker 1: The king's cheese is half wasted in pairings, but no
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Speaker 1: matter tis made of the people's milk five O two.
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Speaker 1: The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than
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Speaker 1: the unlearned, but still tis nonsense five O three. The
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Speaker 1: magistrate should obey the laws, the people should obey the magistrate. Four.
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Speaker 1: The master's eye will do more work than both his
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Speaker 1: hands five O five. The miser's cheese is holsmest five
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Speaker 1: o six. The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom
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Speaker 1: spun too fine five o seven. The muses love the
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Speaker 1: morning five o eight. The nearest way to come to
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Speaker 1: glory is to do that for conscience, which we do
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Speaker 1: for glory five O nine. The noblest question in the
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Speaker 1: world is what good may I do in it? Five ten.
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Speaker 1: The old man has given all to his son, O
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Speaker 1: fool to undress thyself before thou art going to bed
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Speaker 1: five eleven. The painful preacher, like a candle bright, consumes
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Speaker 1: himself in giving others light five twelve. The poor have
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Speaker 1: little beggars, none, the two much enough not one. Five thirteen.
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Speaker 1: The poor man must walk to get meat for his stomach,
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Speaker 1: the rich man to get a stomach to his meat.
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Speaker 1: Five fourteen. The prodigal generally does more injustice than the
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Speaker 1: covetous five fifteen. The proof of gold is fire, the
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Speaker 1: proof of woman gold the proof of man a woman
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Speaker 1: five sixteen. The proud hate pride in others five seventeen.
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Speaker 1: There are lazy minds as well as lazy bodies five eighteen.
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Speaker 1: There are no fools so troublesome as those that have
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Speaker 1: wit five nineteen. There are no ugly loves nor handsome prisons.
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Speaker 1: Five twenty There are three faithful friends, an old wife,
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Speaker 1: an old dog, and ready money. Five twenty one. There
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Speaker 1: are three things extremely hard steel, a diamond into no
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Speaker 1: one's self. Five twenty two. There is neither honor nor
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Speaker 1: gain got in dealing with a villain five twenty three.
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Speaker 1: There is no little enemy five twenty four. There is
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Speaker 1: no man so bad, but he secretly respects the good
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Speaker 1: five twenty five. There is much difference between imitating a
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Speaker 1: good man and counterfeiting him. Five twenty six. There's a
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Speaker 1: time to wink as well as to see five twenty seven.
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Speaker 1: There's many witty men whose brains can't fill their bellies.
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Speaker 1: Five twenty eight. There is more old drunkards than old doctors.
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Speaker 1: Five twenty nine. There is none deceived but he that trusts.
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Speaker 1: Five thirty There is small revenge in words, but words
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Speaker 1: may be greatly revenged five thirty one. There was never
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Speaker 1: a good knife made of bad steel. Five thirty two.
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Speaker 1: They who have nothing to trouble them will be troubled
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Speaker 1: at nothing five thirty three. The rivers and bad governments
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Speaker 1: the lightest things swim at top five thirty four. The
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Speaker 1: rotten apple spoils his companion five thirty five. The royal
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Speaker 1: crown cures not the headache five thirty six. The same
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Speaker 1: man cannot be both friend and flatterer five thirty seven.
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Speaker 1: The sleeping fox catches no poultry up up five thirty eight.
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Speaker 1: The second vice is lying, the first is running in
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Speaker 1: to debt five thirty nine. The sting of the reproach
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Speaker 1: is the truth of it five forty The sun never
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Speaker 1: repents of the good he does, nor does he ever
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Speaker 1: demand a recompense five forty one. The things which hurt
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Speaker 1: instruct five forty two. The tongue is ever turning to
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Speaker 1: the aching tooth five forty three. The tongue offends, and
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Speaker 1: the ears get the cofing five forty four. The too
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Speaker 1: obliging temper is ever more disobliging itself five forty five.
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Speaker 1: The way to be safe is never to be secure.
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Speaker 1: Five forty six. The way to see by faith is
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Speaker 1: to shut the eye of reason. The morning daylight appears
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Speaker 1: plainer when you put out your candle five forty seven.
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Speaker 1: The wise man drives more advantage from his enemies than
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Speaker 1: the fool from his friends. Five forty eight. The worst
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Speaker 1: wheel of the cart makes the most noise. Five forty nine.
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Speaker 1: The wolf sheds his coat once a year, his disposition
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Speaker 1: never five fifty Think of three things. Whence you came
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Speaker 1: where you are going, and to whom you must account
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Speaker 1: five fifty one. First after dessert, not reward. Five fifty two.
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Speaker 1: Though modesty is a virtue, bashfulness is a vice. Five
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Speaker 1: fifty three. Those that have much business must have much
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Speaker 1: pardon five fifty four. Those who are feared are hated
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Speaker 1: five fifty five. Those who, in quarrels interpose must often
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Speaker 1: wipe a bloody nose five fifty six. Though the mastiff
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Speaker 1: be gentle, yet bite him not by the lip. Five
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Speaker 1: fifty seven. Thou canst not joke an enemy into a friend,
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Speaker 1: but thou mayst a friend into an enemy. Five fifty eight.
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Speaker 1: Three good meals a day is bad living five fifty nine.
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Speaker 1: Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead.
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Speaker 1: Five sixty three. Things are men most likely to be
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Speaker 1: cheated in a horse, A whig and a wife five
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Speaker 1: sixty one. Tim and his hand saw are good in
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Speaker 1: their place, though not fit for preaching or shaving a face.
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Speaker 1: Five sixty two. Time enough always proves little enough. Five
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Speaker 1: sixty three Time is an herb that cures all diseases.
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Speaker 1: Five sixty four. Tim was so learned that he could
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Speaker 1: name a horse in nine languages, so ignorant that he
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Speaker 1: bought a cow to ride on. Five sixty five tis
1:17:10
Speaker 1: against some men's principles to pay interest, and seems against
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Speaker 1: others interests to pay the principle. Five sixty six tis
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Speaker 1: a laudable ambition that aims at being better than his neighbor's.
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Speaker 1: Five sixty seven tis a shame that your family is
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Speaker 1: an honor to you. You ought to be an honor
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Speaker 1: to your family. Five sixty eight tis a strange forest
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Speaker 1: that has no rotten wood in it, and a strange
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Speaker 1: kindred that all are good in it. Five sixty nine
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Speaker 1: tis better leave for an enemy at one's death than
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Speaker 1: beg of a friend in one's life. Five seventy tis
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Speaker 1: easier to build two chimneys than maintain one in fuel.
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Speaker 1: Five seventy one tis easier to prevent bad habits than
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Speaker 1: to break them. Five seventy two tis easy to see,
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Speaker 1: hard to foresee. Five seventy three tis easier to suppress
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Speaker 1: the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.
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Speaker 1: Five seventy four. 'tis great confidence in a friend to
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Speaker 1: tell him your faults greater to tell him his. Five
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Speaker 1: seventy five. Tis hard, but glorious to be poor and
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Speaker 1: honest five seventy six tis less discredit to abridge petty
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Speaker 1: charges than to stoop to petty gettings. Five seventy seven.
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Speaker 1: 'tis not a holiday that's not kept holy. Five seventy eight.
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Speaker 1: 'tis a well spent penny that saves a groat five
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Speaker 1: seventy nine. To bear other people's of flfess everyone has
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Speaker 1: courage enough, and to spare five eighty To be intimate
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Speaker 1: with a foolish friend is like going to bed with
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Speaker 1: a razor. Five eighty one. To be proud of knowledge
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Speaker 1: is to be blind with light. To be proud of
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Speaker 1: virtue is to poison yourself with the antidote. Five eighty two.
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Speaker 1: Today is yesterday's pupil. Five eighty three. To err is human,
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Speaker 1: to repent divine, to persist devilish five eighty four. To
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Speaker 1: lengthen thy life lessen thy meals five eighty five Tomorrow
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Speaker 1: every fault is to be amended, but that tomorrow never comes.
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Speaker 1: Five eighty six. Tom vein's your pains, they all will fail.
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Speaker 1: Ne'er was good arrow made of a sow's tail. Five
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Speaker 1: eighty seven. Tongue double brings trouble five eighty eight. Too
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Speaker 1: much plenty makes mouth dainty five eighty nine. To whom
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Speaker 1: thy secret thou dost tell to him thy freedom thou
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Speaker 1: dost sell. Five ninety Tricks and treachery are the practice
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Speaker 1: of fools that have not enough wit to be honest.
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Speaker 1: Five ninety one. Trouble springs from idleness, toil from ease
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Speaker 1: five ninety two. Trust thyself and another shall not betray
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Speaker 1: thee five ninety three. Two dry sticks will burn a
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Speaker 1: green one five ninety four. Up sluggard and waste not.
1:20:43
Speaker 1: Life in the grave will be sleeping enough. Five ninety five.
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Speaker 1: Vainglory flowereth but beareth no fruit. Five ninety six. Vanity
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Speaker 1: back bites more than malice. Five ninety seven. Vice knows
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Speaker 1: she's ugly, so puts on her mask. Five ninety eight.
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Speaker 1: Virtue and a trade are a child's best portion. Five
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Speaker 1: ninety nine. Virtue and happiness are a mother and daughter
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Speaker 1: end of section five Section six of Poor Richard's Almanac
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Speaker 1: by Benjamin Franklin. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain.
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Speaker 1: Read for you by Michel Frye Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Aphorisms
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Speaker 1: six hundred through six seventy six hundred. Virtue may not
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Speaker 1: always make a face handsome, but vice will certainly make
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Speaker 1: it ugly. Six o one. Visits should be short, like
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Speaker 1: a winter's day. Lest you're too troublesome, hasten away. Six
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Speaker 1: o two. Visit your aunt, but not every day, and
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Speaker 1: call it your brothers, but not every night. Six so three.
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Speaker 1: Want of care does us more damage than want of knowledge.
1:22:14
Speaker 1: Six o four. Wars bring scars. Six O five. We
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Speaker 1: are not so sensible of the greatest health as of
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Speaker 1: the least sickness six o six. Wealth is not his
1:22:29
Speaker 1: that has it, but his that enjoys it. Six o seven.
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Speaker 1: Weighty questions ask for deliberate answers. Six O eight. Welcome
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Speaker 1: mischief if thou comest alone. Six o nine. Well done
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Speaker 1: is better than well said. Six ten. Well done is
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Speaker 1: twice done. Six eleven. We may give advice, but we
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Speaker 1: cannot give conduct. Twelve What is a butterfly. At best,
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Speaker 1: he's but a caterpillar dressed. The gaudy fops his picture
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Speaker 1: just six thirteen. What's given shines, what's received is rusty
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Speaker 1: six fourteen. What signifies knowing the names if you know
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Speaker 1: not the nature of the things six fifteen. What signifies
1:23:24
Speaker 1: your patience if you can't find it when you want it?
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Speaker 1: Six sixteen. What's proper is becoming See the blacksmith with
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Speaker 1: his white silk apron six seventeen. What she would seem
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Speaker 1: to be be really six eighteen. When a friend deals
1:23:45
Speaker 1: with a friend, let the bargain be clear and well penned,
1:23:48
Speaker 1: that they may be continue friends to the end. Six nineteen.
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Speaker 1: When befriended, remember it. When you befriend, forget it. Six twenty.
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Speaker 1: When death puts out your flame, the snuff will tell
1:24:04
Speaker 1: if we were wax or tallow by the smell. Six
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Speaker 1: twenty one. When knaves betray each other, one can scarce
1:24:13
Speaker 1: be blamed or the other pitied? Six twenty two. When
1:24:18
Speaker 1: knaves fall out, honest men get their goods. When priests dispute,
1:24:22
Speaker 1: we come at the truth. Six twenty three. When out
1:24:27
Speaker 1: of favor, none know thee. When in thou dost not
1:24:30
Speaker 1: know thyself six twenty four. When prosperity was well mounted,
1:24:37
Speaker 1: she let go the bridle and soon came tumbling out
1:24:40
Speaker 1: of the saddle. Six twenty five. When reason preaches, if
1:24:46
Speaker 1: you won't hear her, she'll box your ears. Six twenty six.
1:24:51
Speaker 1: When there is more malice shown than matter on the
1:24:54
Speaker 1: writer falls the satire six twenty seven. When the wells,
1:25:00
Speaker 1: we know the worth of water six twenty eight. When
1:25:04
Speaker 1: the wine enters, out goes the truth six twenty nine.
1:25:09
Speaker 1: When tis fair, be sure, take your coat with you
1:25:13
Speaker 1: six thirty. When you're good to others, you are best
1:25:17
Speaker 1: to yourself. Six thirty one. When you speak to a man,
1:25:21
Speaker 1: look on his eyes. When he speaks to thee, look
1:25:24
Speaker 1: on his mouth. Six thirty two. When you taste honey,
1:25:29
Speaker 1: remember gaul. Six thirty three. Where bread is wanting, all
1:25:35
Speaker 1: is to be sold. Six thirty four. Where good laws
1:25:40
Speaker 1: are much, people flock thither six thirty five. Where sense
1:25:46
Speaker 1: is wanting, everything is wanting. Six thirty six. Where there's
1:25:51
Speaker 1: no law, there's no bread. Six thirty seven. Where there
1:25:56
Speaker 1: is hunger, law is not regarded, and where law is
1:25:59
Speaker 1: not regarded, there will be hunger. Six thirty eight. Where
1:26:05
Speaker 1: there is marriage without love, there will be love without
1:26:09
Speaker 1: marriage six thirty nine, where yet was ever found the
1:26:14
Speaker 1: mother who'd change her baby for another six forty wide
1:26:20
Speaker 1: will wear, but narrow will tear six forty one. Wink
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Speaker 1: at small faults, Remember thou hast great ones six forty two.
1:26:32
Speaker 1: Wish not so much to live long as to live
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Speaker 1: well six forty three Without justice, courage is weak six
1:26:42
Speaker 1: forty four. With the old almanac and the old year,
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Speaker 1: leave thy old vice, though ever so dear six forty five.
1:26:52
Speaker 1: Who dainties love shall beggars prove six forty six. Who
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Speaker 1: has deceived thee so oft as thyself? Six forty seven.
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Speaker 1: Who is powerful? He that governs his passions six forty eight.
1:27:10
Speaker 1: Who is rich? He that is content? Six forty nine?
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Speaker 1: Who is rich he that rejoices in his portion? Six
1:27:21
Speaker 1: fifty Who is strong? He that can conquer his bad habits?
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Speaker 1: Six fifty one? Who is wise? He that learns from
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Speaker 1: every one six fifty two, who judges best of a man,
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Speaker 1: his enemies or himself six fifty three. Who knows a
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Speaker 1: fool must know his brother, for one will recommend another
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Speaker 1: six fifty four. Willows are weak, but they bind the
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Speaker 1: faggot six fifty five. Wish a miser long life, and
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Speaker 1: you wish him no good six fifty six. Women and wine,
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Speaker 1: game and deceit, make the wealth small and the wants
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Speaker 1: great six fifty seven. Words may show a man's wit,
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Speaker 1: but actions his meaning. Six fifty eight would you live
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Speaker 1: with ease? Do what you ought, not what you please?
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Speaker 1: Six fifty nine would you persuade? Speak of interest, not
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Speaker 1: of reason? Six sixty Write injuries in dust, benefits in
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Speaker 1: marble six sixty one. Write with the learned, pronounce with
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Speaker 1: the vulgar six sixty two. Why does the blind man's
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Speaker 1: wife paint herself? Six sixty three. You can bear your
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Speaker 1: own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?
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Speaker 1: Six sixty four. You may be too cunning for one,
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Speaker 1: but not for all. Six sixty five. You may delay,
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Speaker 1: but time will not six sixty six. You may give
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Speaker 1: a man in office, but you cannot give him discretion
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Speaker 1: six sixty seven. You may talk too much on the
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Speaker 1: best subjects six sixty eight. You may sometimes be much
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Speaker 1: in the wrong in owning your being in the right
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Speaker 1: six sixty nine. Youth is pert and positive, age modest
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Speaker 1: and doubting, so ears of corn. When young and light
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Speaker 1: stand bolt upright, but hang their heads when weighty, full,
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Speaker 1: and ripe. Six seventy. You will be careful, if you
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Speaker 1: are wise, how you touch men's religion, or credit, or eyes.
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Speaker 1: End of section six. End of Poor Richard's Almanac by
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Speaker 1: Benjamin Franklin, read for you by Michel Frye Baton Rouge, Louisiana,
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Speaker 1: in December two thousand fifteen. Thanks for listening.