Franklin's Way to Wealth

Or, Poor Richard Improved

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An auction crowd complaining about hard times gives Benjamin Franklin a setting for advice about work, spending and personal responsibility. Asked how people can bear heavy taxes, Father Abraham answers with sayings attributed to Poor Richard. His speech turns attention to the costs of idleness, pride and careless habits. Practical images of shops, fields, tools and household expenses give the maxims their familiar scale.

Collected from the Poor Richard almanacs, these sayings form a short moral address with a conversational frame. The advice links steady effort with careful supervision of one's own affairs, then insists that earning must be matched by saving. Bargains, fashionable clothes and small recurring expenses become examples of how money slips away. Readers can examine Franklin's view of thrift and useful time while enjoying the compact comparisons through which he makes an argument memorable.

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Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin was an American polymath: a writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher and political philosopher. Among the most influential intellectuals of his time, Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States; a drafter and signer of the Declaration of Independence; and the first postmaster general.