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Franklin, Benjamin

"Poor Richard Improved"


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_Sell-cheap_ kept Shop on _Goodwin Sands_, and yet had Store of
Custom.
_Liberality_ is not giving much but giving wisely.
Finikin _Dick_, curs'd with nice Taste,
Ne'er meets with good dinner, half starv'd at a feast.
Alas! that Heroes ever were made!
The _Plague_, and the _Hero_, are both of a Trade!
Yet the Plague spares our Goods which the Heroe does not;
So a Plague take such Heroes and let their Fames rot.
_Q. P. D._
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The 19th of this month, 1719, died the celebrated _Joseph
Addison_, Esq; aged 47, whose writings have contributed more to the
improvement of the minds of the _British_ nation, and polishing their
manners, than those of any other _English_ pen whatever.
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To Friend, Lawyer, Doctor, tell plain your whole Case;
Nor think on bad Matters to put a good Face:
How can they advise, if they see but a Part?
'Tis very ill driving black Hogs in the dark.
Suspicion may be no Fault, but shewing it may be a great one.
He that's secure is not safe.


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