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POOR RICHARD'S ALMANACK.
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574. 'Tis great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults, greater to tell him his.

575. 'Tis hard (but glorious) to be poor and honest.

576.* 'Tis less discredit to abridge petty charges, than to stoop to petty gettings.

577. 'Tis not a holiday that's not kept holy.

578. 'Tis a well spent penny that saves a groat.

579. To bear other people's afflictions, every one has courage enough, and to spare.

580.* To be intimate with a foolish friend, is like going to bed with a razor.

581.* To be proud of knowledge, is to be blind with light; to be proud of virtue, is to poison yourself with the antidote.

582. To-day is yesterday's pupil.

583.* To err is human, to repent divine, to persist devilish.

584. To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.