1. Franklin, Jefferson and Paine
... 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 Americans. For instance: Women and wine, game and deceit, make the wealth small and the wants great', describing the pleasures of his successful contemporaries, and the dissatisfaction which they tried to extinguish with further ... indulgences. He that by the plow would thrive, himself must either hold or drive. This comment if not anti slavery, was at least pro active in business management, and encouraged men to p...
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- Grade Level: Graduate