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...till Poor Richard that Franklin hit his stride as a maker and collector of aphorisms; e.g., "After 3 days men grow weary, of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy." "Men and Melons are hard to know," "There is no little enemy." Poor Richard, of course, is also chockablock with moralistic homilies. D. H. Lawrence once carped that Franklin "made himself a list of virtues, which he trotted inside like a gray nag in a paddock." Lawrence was not the first or the last to be infuriated by Franklin's middle-class prudence; yet Franklin's maxims-many...
...jail as he worked on Spain's greatest classic, Don Quixote, published in 1605. Like his creator, Don Quixote was the object of ridicule. He charged giants that turned out to be windmills, fought armies that were flocks of sheep, worshiped the purity of a peasant wench who was gifted at salting pork. But in humanism's world of reason, Don Quixote's crime was not his madness but his faith. So is it in today's world of analytic couches. "It is my reason that laughs at my faith," wrote Spain's top Philosopher...
...copy to the effect that Hollywood is empty of female glamour-except, of course, for Diane, who is described thus: "An untamed animal who has learned the art of song, mastered the modern primitive dance. A 22-year-old nymphet free of fingerprints-a desirable but unattainable, unchained barefoot wench, uninvolved personally and professionally. Now-on the Hollywood block to the highest bidder...
...been stiffe, starcht, and retired, as other formall Doctors are, he had known no more than they [for] Pride has been one of the greatest stoppers of the Advancement of Learning ... He was wont to say that man was but a great mischievous Baboon ... He kept a pretty young wench . . . which I guesse he made use of ... as King David did ... After his Booke of the Circulation of the Blood came-out . . . 'twas beleeved by the vulgar that he was crack-brained ... I was at his Funerall, and helpt to carry him into the Vault...
...story about a shop clerk who steals his friend's girl with fancy talk of his own mysterious powers. Author Moravia suggests his moral: the poor must resign themselves to being cheated. The best of the 27 stories is The Girl from Ciociaria, about a simple peasant wench who works as a maid for a professor and steals books from him. One day, in a fit of conscience, she decides to make good her theft-but while the books she stole were on archaeology, the ones she returns are about law. The girl cannot understand her employer...