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POOR RICHARD'S ALMANACK.

149.* For age and want save while you may; no morning sun lasts a whole day.

150. For one poor man there are an hundred indigent.

151.* For want of a nail the shoe is lost; for want of a shoe, the horse is lost; for want of a horse the rider is lost.

152. Friendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility.

153. Friendship increases by visiting friends, but by visiting seldom.

154. Full of courtesy, full of craft.

155. Generous minds are all of kin.

156. Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

157. Gifts burst rocks.

158. Gifts much expected, are paid, not given.

159.* Give me yesterday's bread, this day's flesh, and last year's cyder.

160.* Glass, china, and reputation are easily crack'd, and never well mended.

161. God gives all things to industry.

162. God heals, and the doctor takes the fees.