The almanacs also contain practical advice for getting along with friends and neighbors. For example, "Don't throw stones at your neighbor's windows," Franklin
warns, "If your own are made of glass." Furthermore, this eighteenth-century sage reminds us that, "None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault.
With such sound advice as this, it is not surprising that the "Poor Richard's Almanacs" were immensely popular in Franklin's day, or that we still quote their wise sayings in our own day.