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Kurt
Mohicanite
USA
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September 27 2003
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 Posted - October 30 2003 : 09:23:59 AM
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Let thy vices die before thee.
- Benjamin Franklin
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Yr. obt. svt.
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Doc M
Great Quack Healer of the Frontier
USA
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Posted - October 30 2003 : 5:34:19 PM
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Now where the hell's the fun in that, I'd like to know???
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Bill R
Colonial Militia
USA
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July 03 2002
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Posted - October 30 2003 : 5:41:58 PM
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Agreed!
Except for your vice regarding the grinding up of gnomes, of course.......... |
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Dances with Beagles
Colonial Settler
USA
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May 19 2002
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Posted - October 30 2003 : 10:10:05 PM
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Originally posted by Doc M
Now where the hell's the fun in that, I'd like to know???
Doc M
I was thinking the same thing (scary--to be thinking like Doc Mary!).
But maybe that why "the good die young"....it's no fun anymore!?!?
And Ben, as I recall, lived to quite a ripe old age, and did his vices die before he? |
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Kurt
Mohicanite
USA
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September 27 2003
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Posted - November 01 2003 : 06:29:28 AM
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| If a vice is the opposite of a virtue, Ben conquered at least one vice. Ben came up with a list of thirteen virtues, apparently at an early age since these virtues are the reason behind the maxims published in "Poor Richard's Almanack". The first of the list was Temperance defined as "Eat not to dullness, Drink not to elevation". After the Halloween luncheon Friday with ten times my normal intake, I can attest to the dullness brought on by intemperate eating. (The chili was spectacular.) Ben's vegetarian experiments and temperate eating habits definately lengthened his life. No gout for Ben! |
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Scott Bubar
Colonial Militia
USA
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Posted - November 01 2003 : 10:53:20 AM
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| I thought Franklin did suffer from gout, and worse yet, talked with it. |
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Kurt
Mohicanite
USA
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September 27 2003
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Posted - November 01 2003 : 5:44:35 PM
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| Your're right, Scott. Gout AND gallstones! Sources seem to indicate this was after serving in France as ambasador. Coincidence? |
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