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It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.
It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.
Approximate historical placement: c. 1748 AD · early modern
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- Benjamin Franklin
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- Approximate historical placement: c. 1748 AD · early modern
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
Maxims prefixed to Poor Richard's Almanac, 1757.
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Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.
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