By Ben Franklin and Dr Agon Fly

COURTEOUS Reader,

I have heard that nothing gives an author so great pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by others.

Dr Agon Fly agrees.

Judge, then, how much I must have been gratified by an incident I am going to relate to you. I stopped my horse lately, where a great number of people were collected at an auction of merchants’ goods.

Today we park our cars in multilevel parking facilities at multilevel malls where a great number of people are collected for “sales.”

The hour of the sale not being come, they were conversing on the badness of the times;

Just like last week, of month or year, times and topics remain consistent. Some see the world as full of shadows and others see it as full of light. Those who live on the dark side tend to engage in negative talk and behavior while those on the side of light focus on more positive thoughts and activities – as you will discover was the case in 1758 as it is today. Read on.

and one of the company called to a plain, clean old man, with white locks,

A picture of wisdom.

“Pray, Father Abraham, what think you of the times? Will not these heavy taxes quite ruin the country? How shall we ever be able to pay them? What would you advise us to do?”

Today, as in 1758, people look to those with experience and the wisdom of years for advice and counsel. The difference between 1758 and 2008 is that current America has mistakenly clothed government – including its most incompetent branch; the Congress – corporations, unions and bureaucracies with the mantel of both knowledge and wisdom.

Father Abraham stood, up and replied, “If you would have my advice, I will give it you in short; for ‘A word to the wise is enough,’ as Poor Richard says…”

Ah! The first words of Poor Richard and how profound. There’s much more to come. Read on.

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