Did Benjamin Franklin really say 'Fish and visitors stink after three days.'?

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Fish and visitors stink after three days.

— Benjamin Franklin Early Modern · Electricity experiments, founding father

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"If you would be loved, love and be amiable."

"An old young man will be a young old man."

"Energy and persistence conquer all things."

"To lengthen thy life lessen thy meals."

"After crosses and losses, men grow humbler and wiser."

From 'Poor Richard's Almanack'

Date: 1736

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