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Poor Richard's Almanack Quotes

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Lost Time is never found again.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults.
If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.
In the Affairs of this World Men are saved, not by Faith, but by the Lack of it.
The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.
Women are books, and men the readers be...
There cannot be good living where there is not good drinking.
A friend in need is a friend indeed!.
To all apparent beauties blind, each blemish strikes an envious mind.
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that.
There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
He that's content, hath enough; He that complains, has too much.
What you would seem to be, be really.
The Proud hate Pride – in others.
Praise to the undeserving is severe satire.
The World is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet every one has courage enough to bear the misfortunes, and wisdom enough to manage the Affairs of his neighbor.
If you would persuade, appeal to interest and not to reason.