...Sentences, chiefly such as inculcated Industry and Frugality," are included in Poor Richard's Almanack as "the Means of procuring Wealth and thereby securing...difficult for a Man in Want to act always honestly, as ... it is hard for an empty Sack to stand upright." 22 If we consider these four premises of the American...

...in these simple virtues to go unused. The Autobiography explains Franklin's reasoning. He advertised industry and frugality "as the Means of procuring...difficult for a Man in Want to act always honestly, as ... it is hard for an empty sack to stand upright" (1397). The emphasis on these two virtues is appropriate...

..."vehicle for conveying instruction among the common folk" and therefore filled it with proverbs that "inculcated industry and frugality as the means of procuring wealth and thereby securing virtue." At the time, however, he also had another motive, about which he was quite forthright. The beauty of...

...common People, who bought scarce any other Books. I therefore filled all the little Spaces that occurr'd between the Remarkable Days in the Calendar, with...being more difficult for a Man in Want to act always honestly.21 FRANKLIN ON RIGHT AND WRONG REMEDIES FOR POVERTY Believing, as he did, that industry and...

...People, who bought scarce any other Books. 123 I therefore filled all the little Spaces that occurr'd between the Remarkable Days in the Calendar, with...and Frugality, as the Means of procuring Wealth and securing Virtue, it being more difficult for a Man in Want to act always honestly, as (to use here...

...the common people, who bought scarcely any other books. I therefore filled all the little spaces that occurred between the remarkable days in the calendar...as inculcated industry and frugality as the means o£ procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue; it being more difficult for a man in want to act...

...people, who bought scarcely any other books; I therefore filled all the little spaces that occurr'd between the remarkable days in the calendar with proverbial...proverbs, it is hard for an empty sack to stand upright." WILSON, WOODROW: 150th BIRTH ANNIVERSARY. Dec 28, 1856. The 28th president of the US was born Thomas...

...Books," Franklin acknowledged that he "endeavor'd to make it both entertaining and useful" by filling it with "Proverbial Sentences, chiefly such as inculcated...difficult for a Man in Want to act always honestly." Franklin edited and wrote the almanac for twenty-eight years, enjoying sales of ten thousand or more...

...People, who bought scarce any other Books. I therefore filled all the little Spaces that occur'd between Remarkable Days in the Calendar, with Proverbial Sentences,...inculcated Industry and Frugality, as the means of procurring Wealth and thereby securing Virtue, it being more difficult for a Man in Want to act always...

...people, who bought scarcely any other books; I therefore filled all the little spaces that occurr'd between the remarkable days in the calendar with proverbial...the wisdom of many ages and nations, I assembled and form'd into a connected discourse prefix'd to the Almanac of 1757, as the harangue of a wise old man...