The Pattern Still Remains

When Thomas Jefferson became President, in 1801, 20 percent of all the people in the U.S. were slaves.

Isaac Asimov’s Book of Facts, 1979.

1. Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today
2. Never trouble another for what you can do yourself
3. Never spend your money before you have it
4. Never buy what you do not want because it’s cheap
5. Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold
6. We seldom repent of having eaten too little
7. Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly
8. How much pain the evils have cost us that have never happened
9. Take things always by the smooth handle.
10. When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very, count a hundred.

The Corner Cupboard of Facts for Everybody by Robert Kemp Philip, 1859.

1. Lewis Carroll
2. Sir Kenneth Clark
3. Benjamin Disraeli
4. Frederic William Farrar
5. Ernest Hemingway
6. Thomas Jefferson
7. Malcolm Lowry
8. Horace McCoy
9. Vladimir Nabokov
10. William Saroyan
11. Thomas Wolfe
12. Virginia Woolf

The Book of Lists 2 by Irving Wallace, 1980.