| Bob Phillips - Quotations, English - 1993 - 372 pages
...a writer. There must be a man behind the book. Ralph Waldo Emerson Nothing gives an author so much pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors. Benjamin Franklin Advice to young writers who want to get ahead without any annoying delays: don't... | |
| Various - History - 1994 - 676 pages
...because they are hurtful." The Way to Wealth (Preface to Poor Richard Improved) (1 758) COURTEOUS READER I have heard that nothing gives an Author so great...Authors. This Pleasure I have seldom enjoyed; for tho' I have been, if I may say it without Vanity, an eminent Author of Almanacks annually now a full... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - Reference - 2004 - 320 pages
...Atoms, or Systems, into Ruin hurl'd, And now a Bubble burst, — and now a World! '758 Courteous Reader, I have heard that nothing gives an Author so great...Authors. This Pleasure I have seldom enjoyed; for tho' I have been, if I may say it without Vanity, an eminent A uthor of Almanacks annually now a full... | |
| Erin Barrett, Jack Mingo - Self-Help - 2004 - 132 pages
...great as mine. APPENDIX The Way to Wealth By Richard Saunders (aka Benjamin Franklin) Courteous Reader, I have heard, that nothing gives an author so great...respectfully quoted by other learned authors. This pleasure 1 have seldom enjoyed; for though I have been, if I may say it without vanity, an eminent author of... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 446 pages
...CHAPTER aa Preface to Pggr Richaed Impioved: Father Abrabam's Speeeh ' COURTEOUS READER, C7 j0ly l737l I have heard that nothing gives an Author so great...Pleasure, as to find his Works respectfully quoted hy other learned Authors. This Pleasure I have seldom enjoyed; for tho' I have heen, ifl may say it... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 320 pages
...its publication." The pages which follow were prefixed to the almanac of 1757. 221 COURTEOUS READER: I have heard that nothing gives an author so great...vanity, an eminent author of almanacs annually now for a full quarter of a century, my brother authors in the same way, for what reason I know not, have... | |
| Paul Zall - Social Science - 2005 - 216 pages
...on conversation about herself. Poor Richard listens in an even more dramatic mode. Courteous Reader, I have heard that nothing gives an Author so great...Authors. This Pleasure I have seldom enjoyed; for tho' I have been, if I may say it without Vanity, an eminent Author of Almanacks annually now a full... | |
| A. R. Calhoun - Self-Help - 2005 - 301 pages
...very-day philosophy, useful at all times, and essentially so in the present day : "COURTEOUS READER — I have heard that nothing gives an author so great pleasure as to find Ms works respectfully quoted by others. Judge, then. how much I must have been gratified by an incident... | |
| Richard Zera - Humor - 2005 - 316 pages
...only the better to express myself. —Michel de Montaigne (1553-1592) Nothing gives an author so much pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors. —Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - Business & Economics - 2006 - 168 pages
...repeating thofe wife Sentences, I have fometimes quoted myfelf, with great Gravity. COURTEOUS READER, I Have heard that Nothing gives an author so great...I may say it without Vanity, an eminent Author of Almanacks annually now a full Quarter of a Century, my Brother-Authors in the same Way, for what Reason... | |
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