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What is meant by Benjamin Franklin quote The Devil wipes his breech with poor folks pride?
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∙ 13y ago
breech means buttocks, so he's saying pride in a poor person is toilet paper for the devil - so pride in a poor person is not a valuable commodity. Throwing the devil into the mix indicates he thinks it is worse than useless as it will make poor people a disgusting and low value commodity for the devil to use and throw away.
If you came here because of Queenan's essay in the NYT book review, I doubt Queenan is really that stupid and the editors of the NYT book review definitely aren't. There's probably a Franklin aphorism about wetting the beak of scholars to get them to study.
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