1753

Explore 5 quotes from the year 1753

Haste makes Waste.

Poor Richard (Benjamin Franklin)

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Topic

Haste Carelessness

Author

Poor Richard (Benjamin Franklin)

Source

Poor Richard's Almanack

Medium

Almanac

Statement Type

Proverbs, aphorisms and adages

Language

English

Time

1753 1750s 18th century

Era

Colonial America

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Original Citation

Franklin, Benjamin [published as Richard Saunders]. Poor Richard Improved. Philadelphia, 1753.

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.

Anger is never without a Reason, but seldom with a good One.

Poor Richard (Benjamin Franklin)

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Topic

Temper Anger

Author

Poor Richard (Benjamin Franklin)

Source

Poor Richard's Almanack

Medium

Almanac

Statement Type

Proverbs, aphorisms and adages

Language

English

Time

1753 1750s 18th century

Era

Colonial America

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Franklin, Benjamin [published as Richard Saunders]. Poor Richard Improved. Philadelphia, 1753.

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.

The noblest conquest man has ever made.

Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon

On horses.

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Topic

Horses Man and animals

Author

Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon

Source

L'Histoire Naturelle

Language

French

Time

1753 1750s 18th century

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Citation

Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc. "Le Cheval [The Horse]." Histoire Naturelle generale et particuliere, avec la description du Cabinet du Roi [Natural History, General and Particular, with a Description of the King's Cabinet]. Vol. 4, c. 1753.

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

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Topic

Books

Author

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Source

Letters of Lady Montagu

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1753 1750s 18th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Montagu, Lady Mary Worley. Letter to the Countess of Bute. 28 Jan. 1753.

Man alone consumes and engulfs more flesh than all other animals put together. He is, then, the greatest destroyer, and he is so more by abuse than by necessity.

George Louis Leclerc

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Topic

Human destructiveness Man and animals

Author

George Louis Leclerc

Source

Histoire Naturelle

Genre

Scientific literature

Language

French

Time

1753 1750s 18th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Leclerc, Georges-Louis. Histoire Naturelle, générale et particulière, avec la description du Cabinet du Roi [Natural History, General and Particular, with a Description of the King's Cabinet]. Paris: Imprimerie royale, c. 1753.