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In general , mankind , since the improvement of cookery , eat about twice as much as nature requires . Suppers are not bad if we have not dined ; but restless nights follow hearty suppers after full dinners .
In general , mankind , since the improvement of cookery , eat about twice as much as nature requires . Suppers are not bad if we have not dined ; but restless nights follow hearty suppers after full dinners .
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... and I think there was some foundation for that opinion , since by the apparent motion of the great luminary that gives life to all nature , and which in my time has evidently declined considerably toward the ocean at the end of our ...
... and I think there was some foundation for that opinion , since by the apparent motion of the great luminary that gives life to all nature , and which in my time has evidently declined considerably toward the ocean at the end of our ...
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My friends would comfort me with the idea of a name , they say , I shall leave behind me , and they tell me I have lived long enough to nature and to glory . But what will fame be to an ephemera who no longer exists ?
My friends would comfort me with the idea of a name , they say , I shall leave behind me , and they tell me I have lived long enough to nature and to glory . But what will fame be to an ephemera who no longer exists ?
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accordingly acquaintance advantage affairs afterward agreeable almanac appeared arrived Assembly attend began Benjamin Franklin Boston bred brother brought called captain continued conversation dear debt desired dispute employed endeavor England expense father Franklin friends gave give Gnadenhutten Gout governor hand heard honor horses Hugh Meredith Indians inhabitants instructions JANE MECOM Keimer kind learned length letters Little Britain lived lodged London Lord Loudoun Lord Macclesfield Madeira wine master means mention Motto never observed occasion opinion paper Pennsylvania perhaps Philadelphia piece pleased pleasure Poor Richard says POOR RICHARD'S ALMANAC pounds currency present printed printer printing-house procure proposed province Quakers Ralph received sailed sect sensible shillings sometimes soon street thee things thou thought thousand pounds tion told took virtue wagons walk writing wrote young
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| Titel | The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: Poor Richard's Almanac and Other Papers World's greatest literature |
| Autor/in | Benjamin Franklin |
| Verlag | Spencer Press, 1930 |
| Original von | Pennsylvania State University |
| Digitalisiert | 8. Juli 2011 |
| Länge | 311 Seiten |
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