- Jan 2016
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diligence is the mother of good luck
Good luck isn't really luck at all, but actually fortune that favors those who pay attention and take care of what they have and who they are.
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Women and wine, game and deceit, Make the wealth small, and the wants great.
These things do nothing to add on to who we are and what we have, they merely affect our short term desires but in the long run create a hole that cannot be repaired.
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disdain the chain, preserve your freedom; and maintain your independency: be industrious and free; be frugal and free. At present, perhaps, you may think yourself in thriving circumstances, and that you can bear a little extravagance without injury; but,
We can never be truly aware of when things will go bad for us, so Franklin urges us to stay out of the hands of debtors and creditors, and to free ourselves from their dependence to keep us as free citizens.
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The frequent mention he made of me must have tired any one else, but my vanity was wonderfully delighted with it, though I was conscious that not a tenth part of the wisdom was my own which he ascribed to me, but rather the gleanings I had made of the sense of all ages and nations
Franklin admits that so much brilliance couldn't have been thought up on his own, and he remains humble towards any praise he receives.
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the second vice is lying, the first is running in debt. And again to the same purpose, lying rides upon debt's back.
These two things go hand in hand, and while many think they can avoid one if they attempt another, they are foolish in doing so because these things are almost a package deal
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one today is worth two tomorrows
We often put so much investment into our future that we forget how essential the present is to our lasting success. Here Franklin reminds us of that with this phrase.
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but creditors, Poor Richard tells us, have better memories than debtors
The people that you owe things to will always remember your debt more than whatever things are indebted to you.
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Trusting too much to others' care is the ruin of many
Here Franklin criticizes those who put too much weight in to the opinions of others, whereas people who wish to be successful in life worry less about the public opinion, and more about the work they create.
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vendues
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prodigality
adj.
- Rashly or wastefully extravagant
- Giving or given in abundance; lavish or profuse
n. One who is given to wasteful luxury or extravagance.
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