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Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose, Selected ... - Page 1045
by Vicesimus Knox - 1797 - 1120 pages
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The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and ..., Volume 2

Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - Statesmen - 1836 - 584 pages
...Experience keeps a dear school, but fools iinll learn in no other, as Poor Richard says, and scarce in that ; for, it is true, We may give advice, but...that will not be counselled, cannot be helped ; and further, that, If you will not hear Reason, she will surely rap your knuckles, as Poor Richard says."...
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The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and ..., Volume 2

Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - Statesmen - 1836 - 584 pages
...learn in no other, as Poor Richard says, and scarce in that ; for, it is true, We may give advice, bilt we cannot give conduct. However, remember this, They...that will not be counselled, cannot be helped ; and further, that, If you will not hear Reason, she will surely rap your knuckles, as Poor Richard says."...
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The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of Essays, Humorous, Moral ...

Benjamin Franklin - Autobiographical memory - 1837 - 356 pages
...scarce in that ; for it is true, we may give advice, but we cannot give conduct,' as poor Richard says. However, remember this, 'They that will not be counselled, cannot be helped,' as poor Richard says ; and farther, that ' If you will not hear reason, she will surely rap your knuckles.'...
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The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin, Consisting of Essays, Humorous, Moral ...

Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1839 - 246 pages
...And now, to conclude, u Experience keeps a dear school ; but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that ; for it is true, we may give advice, but we cannot "not be helpe," as poor car says ; an, urter, that"If you will not hear Reason, she will surely rap...
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The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of Essays, Humorous, Moral ...

Benjamin Franklin - Political science - 1840 - 342 pages
...And now to conclude : ' Experience keeps a dear school ; but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that : for it is true, we may give advice, but we cannot give conduct,' as poor Richard says. However, remember this, ' They that will not be counselled, cannot be helped,...
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Practical Morality, Or, A Guide to Men and Manners: Consisting of Lord ...

Conduct of life - 1841 - 300 pages
...Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other," as Poor Richard says, and scarcely in that ; for, it is true, " We may give advice, but...helped !" and farther, that, " If you will not hear Reason, she will surely rap your knuckles," as Poor Richard says.' Thus the old gentleman ended his...
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Lessons for young persons in humble life [by E. Frank].

Elizabeth Frank - 1842 - 304 pages
...Experience keeps a dear school ; but fools will learn in no other," as Poor Richard says, " and scarcely in that : for it is true, we may give advice, but...cannot give conduct.' However, remember this, " They who will not be counselled, cannot be helped ;" and farther, that, " If you will not hear Reason, she...
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The Life of Benjamin Franklin: Illustrated by Tales, Sketches, and Anecdotes ...

1842 - 194 pages
...suffered, and was afterwards prosperous. dear school ; but fools will learn in no other, and scarce m that ; for it is true, we may give advice, but we cannot give conduct,' as poor Richard says. However, remember this, 'They that will not be counseled cannot be helped,' as...
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The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and ..., Volume 2

Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1844 - 600 pages
...Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, as Poor Richard says, and scarce in that ; for, it is true, We may give advice, but...cannot give conduct. However, remember this, They that wUl not be counselled, cannot be helped ; and further, that, If you will not hear Reason, she will...
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Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight, Volume 1

Half hours - 1847 - 614 pages
...Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no otherj' as Poor Richard says, and scarce in that; for it is true, ' We may give advice, but...helped ; ' and farther, that, ' If you will not hear reason, she will surely rap your knuckles,' as Poor Richard says." Thus the old gentleman ended his...
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