{"product_id":"poor-richards-almanack-benjamin-franklin-peter-pauper-press","title":"Poor Richard's Almanack, Benjamin Franklin—Good Sense, Etiquette, Advice—Gilded Pages, Dust Jacket, NEW","description":"\u003cp\u003eBenjamin Franklin originally published \"Poor Richard's Almanack\" on December 28, 1732 under the pen name Poor Richard.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTHIS IS A BRAND NEW COPY OF \"Poor Richard's Almanack\":\u003cbr\u003eDimensions: 6\" x 9.25\" x .5\"\u003cbr\u003ePages: 77\u003cbr\u003eHardcover\u003cbr\u003eGilded Pages\u003cbr\u003eDust Jacket\u003cbr\u003eCollectible Classic\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eABOUT \"POOR RICHARD'S ALMANACK\":\u003cbr\u003eBenjamin Franklin’s Poor Richard’s Almanack is a delightful mix of wit, wisdom, and practical advice—packed with clever sayings about thrift, hard work, and good humor. Written under the pen name “Poor Richard,” Franklin offered readers everything from weather forecasts and proverbs to moral lessons and gentle jokes about human nature. It’s the kind of book that feels like a chat with an old friend who’s both wise and funny. Many of its sayings—like “Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise”—have become part of everyday speech. Franklin’s legacy lives on not just in his inventions and statesmanship, but in the way his words continue to inspire everyday wisdom, optimism, and good sense centuries later.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNOTE TO READER (from Paul Leicester Ford):\u003cbr\u003eIt is hardly necessary to state, that Franklin did not originate all the sayings of \"Poor Richard\". He himself tells us, that they were the \"wisdom of many ages and nations\". Any one, familiar with Bacon, Rochefoucauld, and Rabelais, as well as others, will recognize old friends in some of these sayings, while a study of the collections of Proverbs, made in the early part of the eighteenth century, by Ray and Palmer, will reveal the probable source from which \"Poor Richard\" pilfered. Yet, with but few exceptions, these maxims and aphorisms had been filtered through Franklin's brain, and were tinged with that mother wit, which so strongly and individually marks so much that he said and wrote.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCURATING A PRIVATE LIBRARY:\u003cbr\u003eStorybounders believes that everyone should have a beautiful library full of great stories—a story reservoir that will inspire and impact you, and your loved ones, as you grow and learn together in the years to come. Bring the magic of stories into your own home by curating a private library that will provide beauty, knowledge, serenity, inspiration, and fill you with anticipation and hope for the future.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Storybounders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49063733625078,"sku":"25213","price":11.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0671\/4192\/7158\/files\/il_fullxfull.7406908712_4xcu.jpg?v=1793410853","url":"https:\/\/storybounders.com\/products\/poor-richards-almanack-benjamin-franklin-peter-pauper-press","provider":"Storybounders","version":"1.0","type":"link"}