1752

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Old Boys have their Playthings as well as young Ones; the Difference is only in the Price.

Poor Richard (Benjamin Franklin)

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Topic

Youth vs. old age Expensive hobbies Hobbies

Author

Poor Richard (Benjamin Franklin)

Source

Poor Richard's Almanack

Medium

Almanac

Statement Type

Proverbs, aphorisms and adages

Language

English

Time

1752 1750s 18th century

Era

Colonial America

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Franklin, Benjamin [published as Richard Saunders]. Poor Richard Improved. Philadelphia, 1752.

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.

For want of Nail the Shoe is lost;
For want of a Shoe the Horse is lost;
For want of a Horse the Rider is lost.

Poor Richard (Benjamin Franklin)

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Topic

Butterfly effect Little things make a big difference

Author

Poor Richard (Benjamin Franklin)

Source

Poor Richard's Almanack

Medium

Almanac

Statement Type

Proverbs, aphorisms and adages

Language

English

Time

1752 1750s 18th century

Era

Colonial America

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Franklin, Benjamin [published as Richard Saunders]. Poor Richard Improved. Philadelphia, 1752.

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.

Success has ruin’d many a Man.

Poor Richard (Benjamin Franklin)

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Topic

Downsides of success Success Character

Author

Poor Richard (Benjamin Franklin)

Source

Poor Richard's Almanack

Medium

Almanac

Statement Type

Proverbs, aphorisms and adages Paradox

Language

English

Time

1752 1750s 18th century

Era

Colonial America

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Franklin, Benjamin [published as Richard Saunders]. Poor Richard Improved. Philadelphia, 1752.

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.

Money... Is none of the wheels of trade: It is the oil which renders the motion of the wheels more smooth and easy.

David Hume

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Topic

Money

Author

David Hume

Source

Of Money Political Discourses

Medium

Essay

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1752 1750s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Hume, David. "Of Money." Political Discourses. Edinburgh: A. Kincaid and A. Donaldson, 1752, no. 3.

Current Citation

Hume, David. "Of Money." Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary: Volumes 1 and 2, edited by Tom L. Beauchamp and Mark A Box. Oxford University Press, 2022, pt. 2, no. 3.

Nations, like men, have their infancy.

Henry St. John, Lord Bolingbroke

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Topic

Youth Nations

Author

Henry St. John, Lord Bolingbroke

Source

On the Study of History

Medium

Essay

Genre

Historical literature

Language

English

Time

1752 1750s 19th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

Authentication Score 3

Citation

St. John, Henry. "Of the Study of History." Letters on the Study and Use of History. J. J. Tourneisen, 1788, letter 5.