Poor Richard's Almanack.
1. A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can scarce ever be spent.
2. A cold April, the barn will fill.
3. A countryman between two lawyers, is like a fish between two cats.
4.* Act uprightly, and despise calumny; dirt may stick to a mud wall, but not to polish'd marble.
5. A cypher and humility make the other figures and virtues of tenfold value.
6. A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.
7.* A father's a treasure; a brother's a comfort; a friend is both.
8. A fat kitchen, a lean will.
9. A fine genius in his own country, is like gold in the mine.
10. A flatterer never seems absurd: The flatter'd always takes his word.
11.* After three days men grow weary of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy.
12. After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.
