1750

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Little strokes fell great Oaks.

Poor Richard (Benjamin Franklin)

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Butterfly effect Incremental progress Diligence Persistence

Author

Poor Richard (Benjamin Franklin)

Source

Poor Richard's Almanack

Medium

Almanac

Statement Type

Proverbs, aphorisms and adages Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1750 1750s 18th century

Era

Colonial America

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Franklin, Benjamin [published as Richard Saunders]. Poor Richard Improved. Philadelphia, 1750.

Current Citation

Franklin, Benjamin. "Poor Richard Improved." Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography, Poor Richard, and Later Writings, edited by J. A. Leo Lemay. Library of America, 2005.

Genius without Education is like Silver in the Mine.

Poor Richard (Benjamin Franklin)

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Topic

Untapped potential Human potential Genius Education

Author

Poor Richard (Benjamin Franklin)

Source

Poor Richard's Almanack

Medium

Almanac

Statement Type

Proverbs, aphorisms and adages

Language

English

Time

1750 1750s 18th century

Era

Colonial America

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Franklin, Benjamin [published as Richard Saunders]. Poor Richard Improved. Philadelphia, 1750.

Current Citation

Franklin, Benjamin. "Poor Richard Improved." Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography, Poor Richard, and Later Writings, edited by J. A. Leo Lemay. Library of America, 2005.

Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily crack’d, and never well mended.

Poor Richard (Benjamin Franklin)

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Topic

Reputation

Author

Poor Richard (Benjamin Franklin)

Source

Poor Richard's Almanack

Medium

Almanac

Statement Type

Proverbs, aphorisms and adages Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1750 1750s 18th century

Era

Colonial America

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Franklin, Benjamin [published as Richard Saunders]. Poor Richard Improved. Philadelphia, 1750.

Current Citation

Franklin, Benjamin. "Poor Richard Improved." Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography, Poor Richard, and Later Writings, edited by J. A. Leo Lemay. Library of America, 2005.

Hide not your Talents, they for Use were made: “What’s a Sun-Dial in the Shade?”

Poor Richard (Benjamin Franklin)

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Topic

Modesty Talent

Author

Poor Richard (Benjamin Franklin)

Source

Poor Richard's Almanack

Medium

Almanac

Statement Type

Proverbs, aphorisms and adages Advice

Language

English

Time

1750 1750s 18th century

Era

Colonial America

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Franklin, Benjamin [published as Richard Saunders]. Poor Richard Improved. Philadelphia, 1750.

Current Citation

Franklin, Benjamin. "Poor Richard Improved." Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography, Poor Richard, and Later Writings, edited by J. A. Leo Lemay. Library of America, 2005.

God is on the side not of the heavy battalions, but of the best shots.

Voltaire

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Topic

God taking sides War

Author

Voltaire

Medium

Personal journal

Language

French

Time

1750 1750s 18th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Voltaire. The Piccini Notebooks. c. 1738-1750.

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

Voltaire

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Topic

Virginity Patriarchy

Author

Voltaire

Medium

Personal journal

Language

French

Time

1750 1750s 18th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Voltaire. The Piccini Notebooks. c. 1738-1750.

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

George Savile, Lord Halifax

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Topic

Anger Justifications and rationales

Author

George Savile, Lord Halifax

Source

Of Anger

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1750 1750s 18th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Savile, George. "Of Anger." A Character of King Charles The Second and Political, Moral and Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections. London: J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1750.

Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.

George Savile, Lord Halifax

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Topic

Deterrence (theory of punishment) Theory of punishment Criminal law Legal theory Law

Author

George Savile, Lord Halifax

Source

A Character of King Charles II

Language

English

Time

1750 1750s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Savile, George. "Of Punishment." A Character of King Charles The Second and Political, Moral and Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections. London: J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1750.

You can bear your own Faults, why not a Fault in your Wife?

Poor Richard (Benjamin Franklin)

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Topic

Forgiveness Self-awareness Judging others Marriage

Author

Poor Richard (Benjamin Franklin)

Source

Poor Richard's Almanack

Medium

Almanac

Statement Type

Proverbs, aphorisms and adages

Language

English

Time

1750 1750s 18th century

Era

Colonial America

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Franklin, Benjamin [published as Richard Saunders]. Poor Richard Improved. Philadelphia, 1750.

Current Citation

Franklin, Benjamin. "Poor Richard Improved." Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography, Poor Richard, and Later Writings, edited by J. A. Leo Lemay. Library of America, 2005.

Many a Man thinks he is buying Pleasure, when he is really selling himself a slave to it.

Poor Richard (Benjamin Franklin)

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Topic

Pleasure Hedonism Addiction Delusion

Author

Poor Richard (Benjamin Franklin)

Source

Poor Richard's Almanack

Medium

Almanac

Statement Type

Proverbs, aphorisms and adages

Language

English

Time

1750 1750s 18th century

Era

Colonial America

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Franklin, Benjamin [published as Richard Saunders]. Poor Richard Improved. Philadelphia, 1750.

Current Citation

Franklin, Benjamin. "Poor Richard Improved." Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography, Poor Richard, and Later Writings, edited by J. A. Leo Lemay. Library of America, 2005.

He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.

George Berkeley

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Topic

Honesty Personal integrity

Author

George Berkeley

Source

Maxims Concerning Patriotism

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1750 1750s 18th century

Era

Colonial America

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Berkeley, George. "Maxims Concerning Patriotism." A Miscellany, Containing Several Tracts on Various Subjects. By the Bishop of Cloyne. London: J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1752.

Wherever a knave is not punished, an honest man is laughed at.

George Savile, Lord Halifax

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Topic

Rule of law Criminal law Law Political theory Politics

Author

George Savile, Lord Halifax

Source

A Character of King Charles II

Language

English

Time

1750 1750s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Savile, George. "Of Punishment." A Character of King Charles The Second and Political, Moral and Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections. London: J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1750.

A wise traveler never despises his own country.

Carlo Goldoni

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Topic

Criticism of one's country One's native land Patriotism

Speaker

Milord Bonfil

Author

Carlo Goldoni

Source

Pamela

Medium

Play

Language

Italian

Time

1750 1750s 18th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Goldoni, Carlo. La Pamela [The Pamela]. 1750, Teatro Sant'Angelo, Venice, Italy, act 1, sc. 16.

A known liar should be outlawed in a well-ordered government.

George Savile, Lord Halifax

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Topic

Politics and lies Liars Political theory Politics

Author

George Savile, Lord Halifax

Source

A Character of King Charles II

Language

English

Time

1750 1750s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Savile, George. "Miscellaneous: Lying." A Character of King Charles The Second and Political, Moral and Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections. London: J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1750.