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Poor Richard's delightful annual prefaces never, alas, became as famous as the maxims and sayings that Franklin scattered in the margins of his almanacs each year, such as the most famous of all: "Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise." Franklin would have been amused by how faithfully these were praised by subsequent advocates of self-improvement, and he would likely have been even more amused by the humorists who later poked fun at them. In a sketch with the ironic title "The Late Benjamin Franklin," Mark Twain gibed...
When Archbold started doing Franklin in 1973, he immediately liked it. He liked being wise. He liked being funny. He liked that people listened to him. So he started reading every Franklin book he could find (more than 200 sit on his bookshelves) and quickly discovered that he was born on Franklin's birthday (Jan. 17). Archbold began performing as Franklin in schools around the Middle West full time, and in 1981 he moved his business to where the market for Franklin...
...large degree, Vajpayee's recommandeering of India's political agenda is testament to the shrewdness of the man now acknowledged as one of the country's canniest operators. Vajpayee has played up the image of himself as grandfatherly thinker and poet, and in India the idea of the wise elder, the guru, has a mystique and appeal that cuts across political lines. For Vajpayee, it enables a regal rise above India's noisy democracy. Last year, with his rightist rivals ascendant, Vajpayee more or less retired from public view. But after the fundamentalists reached their high-tide mark last December...
...sadness over a comment that was interpreted badly." We no longer live in Winston Land, but in the post-Auschwitz age. And so, in the catalog of epithets, "Nazi" trumps them all - the ghosts of the 55 million who died in World War II see to that. If a wise God were in charge of the world stage, he would decree: Thou shalt not exploit the memory of the Holocaust by using it for cheap political purposes. The label has become the universal atomic bomb of denigration, and you don't even have to be German to have it dropped...
Education, he emphasized, requires responsibility. He told the student that they should ultimately be concerned not with “how smart” they were, but instead “how wise...