... abroad, ran in debt, and neglected his business; upon which all business left him."" This list is really the epitome of what Franklin warned would be the ruin of any man who used his profits in such frivolity. At thirty-three Franklin published the first Poor Richard's Almanac, a collection, effectively, of his own quotes, assembled under the pseudonym Richard Saunders'. ... the establishing and maintenance of their own livelihood, a major aspect of Franklin's American vision. His most famous credence under this title early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wi...

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... madwoman captive behind the door. "Jane has no contact with Bertha Rochester; yet Jane's sense of herself as a woman – as equal to and with the same needs as a man, is next-door to insanity" in 1840s England. This highlights the fact that women were treated as a commodity and their values were not taken seriously by the males of ... ...

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... duty essentially "let go." Backing this further, this almost false yet Whig way of looking at the British Empire meant an arguably ignorant view that the Empire was the white man's" burden and during its end was honourably discharged but deliberately wound up meaning there was absolutely no shame in the loss of the British Empire, rather they felt they had ... ...

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