... 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'. Franklin used the character Poor Richard', after the alleged author, to personify the moral codes and work ethics he wished to enforce on other ... ...

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