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_aFranklin, Benjamin, _d1706-1790 |
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| 240 | 1 | 0 | _aStory of the whistle |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | _aThe whistle |
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_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2026 |
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| 500 | _aRelease date is 2026-05-12 | ||
| 508 | _aCharlene Taylor, Bob Taylor, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) | ||
| 520 | _aThe whistle by Benjamin Franklin is a brief moral essay, originally an extract from a personal letter, written in the late 18th century. It reflects on prudence and value, using a childhood anecdote to teach the danger of overpaying—whether in money, time, freedom, or character—for things that are not truly worth their cost. The narrator recalls spending all his small change on a toy whistle as a child, only to be teased for paying far too much. The sting of that lesson becomes a lifelong maxim: “Don’t give too much for the whistle.” He then applies it to adult life, noting people who sacrifice integrity and peace for court favor, neglect their affairs for popularity, hoard wealth at the cost of comfort and friendship, chase sensual pleasures that ruin health and improvement, indulge in showy living that ends in debt and prison, and even enter marriages that bring misery. He concludes that much human unhappiness comes from misjudging the real value of things and paying dearly for hollow satisfactions. (This is an automatically generated summary.) | ||
| 520 | _aBenjamin Franklin describes a childhood incident of buying a whistle that taught him a lesson he never forgot. (This summary is from the Library of Congress.) | ||
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_pOriginally published: _cBoston: Brad Stephens & Company, 1921 |
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| 653 | _aConduct of life -- Juvenile literature | ||
| 653 | _aThriftiness -- Juvenile literature | ||
| 856 | 4 | _uhttps://archive.org/details/whistle00fran/page/n3/mode/2up | |
| 856 | 4 | 0 | _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78663 |
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