Benjamin Franklin, Advice to a Young Man on the Choice of a Mistress (1745).

[1devil]

http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/bdo...cs/51-fra.html

[Lex Luthor]

http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/bdo...cs/51-fra.html

Did you watch HBO's "John Adams"...?

[Enso]

On choosing an older woman

2. Because when Women cease to be handsome, they study to be good. To maintain their Influence over Men, they supply the Diminution of Beauty by an Augmentation of Utility. They learn to do a 1000 Services small and great, and are the most tender and useful of all Friends when you are sick. Thus they continue amiable. And hence there is hardly such a thing to be found as an old Woman who is not a good Woman.

Lol...

[1devil]

Did you watch HBO's "John Adams"...?

No, I missed it.

[1devil]

Ben Franklin on the Bald eagle:

"For my own part I wish the Bald Eagle had not been chosen the Representative of our Country. He is a Bird of bad moral Character. He does not get his Living honestly. You may have seen him perched on some dead Tree near the River, where, too lazy to fish for himself, he watches the Labour of the Fishing Hawk; and when that diligent Bird has at length taken a Fish, and is bearing it to his Nest for the Support of his Mate and young Ones, the Bald Eagle pursues him and takes it from him.

"With all this Injustice, he is never in good Case but like those among Men who live by Sharping & Robbing he is generally poor and often very lousy. Besides he is a rank Coward: The little King Bird not bigger than a Sparrow attacks him boldly and drives him out of the District. He is therefore by no means a proper Emblem for the brave and honest Cincinnati of America who have driven all the King birds from our Country . . .

"I am on this account not displeased that the Figure is not known as a Bald Eagle, but looks more like a Turkey. For the Truth the Turkey is in Comparison a much more respectable Bird, and withal a true original Native of America . . . He is besides, though a little vain & silly, a Bird of Courage, and would not hesitate to attack a Grenadier of the British Guards who should presume to invade his Farm Yard with a red Coat on."

[Enso]

No, I missed it.

It's excellent, a must see imho.

[StartTheMachine]

Now I have a non-creepy justification for my fondness of MILFs. Wonderful.

I found this phrasing particularly hilarious: "You call this a Paradox, and demand my Reasons. They are these:"

Sounds just like something Ben would say.

[ZenBowman]

Gangsta! Repped.

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