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<Author>Franklin, Benjamin</Author>
<Title>Poor Richard's Almanac, 1733-1758</Title>
<Edition>[Selections. 1987] Writings. Library of America. J.A. Leo Lemay, ed. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, 1987</Edition>
<Date>1733-1758</Date>
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<milestone n=1185><p><i>Poor Richard, 1733</i>
<p><i>Courteous Reader</i>,
<p>I might in this place at tempt to gain thy Favour, by
declaring that I write Almanacks with no other View than
that of the publick Good; but in this I should not be
sincere; and Men are now a-days too wise to be deceiv'd by
Pretences how specious soever. The plain Truth of the Matter
is, I am excessive poor, and my Wife, good Woman, is, I tell
her, excessive proud; she cannot bear, she says, to sit
spinning in her Shift of Tow, while I do nothing but gaze at
the Stars; and has threatned more than once to burn all my
Books and Rattling-Traps (as she calls my Instruments) if I
do not m . . .