Poor Richard's Almanack

By: Benjamin Franklin

Narrated by: Jacques Richey

Poor Richard's Almanack is an almanac published annually from 1732 to 1758 by Benjamin Franklin, under the pseudonym of "Poor Richard" or "Richard Saunders". Almanacks were very popular in colonial America, usually offering a mixture of weather forecasts, practical household hints, puzzles, and other amusements.

Poor Richard's Almanack contained the calendar, astronomical and astrological information, poems, and sayings. In the spaces that occurred between noted calendar days, Franklin included proverbial sentences about industry and frugality. Franklin also included the occasional mathematical exercise, and the 1750 Almanack features an early example of demographics. It is mainly remembered, however, for being a repository of Franklin's aphorisms and proverbs, many of which live on in American English.

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Time tested wisdom

Everyone should read or listen to this, we would be better of for it that is for sure!

Out of time

A great list of helpful phrases of advice. Some of them are duplicates, and others make little sense in this day. But I still enjoyed hearing them all.

Good advice will never get old

I guess good advice will never get old.
Over six hundred smart and deep thoughts of one of the smartest men ever lived.
I keep this book handy and read a few advice at the time.
Must read highly recommended.