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By Benjamin Franklin
Sloth, like Rust, consumes faster than Labour wears, while the used Key is always bright.
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- Poor Richard Improved, 1758 (The Way to Wealth), July 7, 1757 · The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 7, pp. 326-355
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- Founders Online, National Archives (The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 7)
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From The Way to Wealth, the preface Franklin wrote for his almanac Poor Richard Improved for 1758, dated July 7, 1757. The sayings are spoken by a character, Father Abraham, who quotes Poor Richard. Franklin ends the piece by saying that "not a tenth Part of the Wisdom was my own," but rather "the Gleanings I had made of the Sense of all Ages and Nations."