Poor Richard Almanac--The Way to Wealth (Chinese-English Parallel Text): The Way to Wealth (Chinese-English Parallel Text)

Author: Benjamin Franklin
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Publish Date: 2003-04-01
Features: A comprehensive book of life wisdom written by a polymathic giant, where one sentence might change your life. In today's era where different trades are as far apart as the heavens and the earth, many are experts in one field but lack in others. Faced with this somewhat absurd situation, before even reading Franklin's all-encompassing book of life wisdom, just looking at him—the polymathic giant—could offer us profound insights. As is well-known, he was a great scientist and inventor, who proved with a kite that lightning is a form of electricity, demonstrated that electricity produced in the laboratory is a great source of cosmic energy, and proposed a complete theory of electricity, inventing the lightning rod and more. He was also an outstanding politician and diplomat, one of the pioneers of American independence and nation-building; he was an excellent writer and philosopher, whose deep thoughts and simple yet witty writing style are still widely praised today; he was also a successful printer and publisher, whose experience in accumulating wealth serves as the best example of his philosophy of life. Faced with such a "polymathic" giant, we are filled with awe while: "What should I do?"