Selections of aphorisms, prudences, and proverbs
Poor Richard's Almanack
By Benjamin Franklin
under the name of Richard Saunders, Philomath.
A maxim at hazard upon opening, and the full Waterloo selection below.
Printed for the Curious, Saving & Useful.
Maxim at hazard
No. 1
A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can scarce ever be spent.
Printer's note
This site follows the 1914 Poor Richard's Almanack selection published by the U. S. C. Publishing Co. and hosted by Internet Archive. It is not the entire yearly almanac run from Franklin's lifetime.
The sayings below are lightly normalized from the archive OCR for readability. Obvious scan errors were corrected, archaic spellings were mostly left alone, and some sayings reflect the assumptions of their era.
In the source, a leading star marks sayings intended to carry two distinct thoughts.
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