Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin, Band 2Harper & brothers, 1842 |
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... Judge , then , how much I must have been gratified by an incident I am going to re- late to you . I stopped my horse lately where a great number of people were collected at an auc- tion of merchants ' goods . The hour of the sale not ...
... Judge , then , how much I must have been gratified by an incident I am going to re- late to you . I stopped my horse lately where a great number of people were collected at an auc- tion of merchants ' goods . The hour of the sale not ...
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... judge yourself whether they acquire more esteem than blame , whether they are more admired than contemned . Think , on the contrary , with how much more hon- our a man is regarded who understands perfectly what he says and what he does ...
... judge yourself whether they acquire more esteem than blame , whether they are more admired than contemned . Think , on the contrary , with how much more hon- our a man is regarded who understands perfectly what he says and what he does ...
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... judge by the acts , arrêts , and edicts , all the world over , for regulating commerce , an assembly of great men is the greatest fool upon earth . I have not yet , indeed , thought of a remedy for luxury . I am not sure that in a great ...
... judge by the acts , arrêts , and edicts , all the world over , for regulating commerce , an assembly of great men is the greatest fool upon earth . I have not yet , indeed , thought of a remedy for luxury . I am not sure that in a great ...
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... judge rightly , we might buy blindfolded , and they would save , both to themselves and customers , the unpleasantness of haggling . * Truth is brighter than light . Though there are numbers of shopkeepers who scorn the mean 50 WRITINGS ...
... judge rightly , we might buy blindfolded , and they would save , both to themselves and customers , the unpleasantness of haggling . * Truth is brighter than light . Though there are numbers of shopkeepers who scorn the mean 50 WRITINGS ...
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... judges , no man could write or open his mouth without being in danger of forfeiting his head . One was put to death for inserting in his history the praises of Brutus . Another for styling Cassius the last of the Romans . Caligula ...
... judges , no man could write or open his mouth without being in danger of forfeiting his head . One was put to death for inserting in his history the praises of Brutus . Another for styling Cassius the last of the Romans . Caligula ...
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