Poor Richard's Almanack

91Living historically.

Weather, planting, and a proverb. A tool kept the whole year.

The review

Franklin had stopped writing Poor Richard long before the war. The name stayed, because a house needed a book that was not the Bible and was still kept all year. Planting, money, a joke, a rule for work.

The score is for that use. It is not a claim that Franklin was still the author in 1776.

Journal

Keep Poor Richard's Almanack in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 91. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household is the thin one.

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

The eight

10
Industry
Work, thrift, and the day are the whole doctrine.
9
Household
A house runs on the calendar. Early to bed is a household rule.
9
Piety
Usefulness stands where a creed might. Some of the piety is a proverb.
9
Courage
No battle. The courage is doing the small thing on time.
9
Republic
A shared calendar is how a town farms and how it meets.
9
Temperance
Appetite is the enemy of the maxim. Spend less. Drink less. Rise.
9
Truth
The maxims are often true, and some of them are a salesman talking.
9
Stewardship
Hung on a nail and used until the year was over. Then the next one.

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Common Sense

91Living historically.

Plain words, written to be read aloud. The name stayed off the first printing because the charge was treason.

The review

Paine wrote it so a kitchen could hear it. That is the measure. A king, he says, is not a parent, and a continent does not need one across an ocean.

How many copies were printed is not known. The score is not a circulation number. It is the eight questions. Read it aloud once, the way a tavern did, and then ask who in the room is allowed to answer.