Who Is Father Abraham's Sayings In The Way To Wealth

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In Benjamin Franklin’s “The Way to Wealth” fictitious character old man called Father Abraham preaches to the crowd quoting the sayings from Richard Sounders who is also created by Franklin as a fictitious character. Franklin describes about the way to be wealthy, but actually this is not only to be a rich or wealthy person, but also how to lead a fulfilling life with being independent, frugally and industry. Those saying are very simple and sometimes humorous. Father Abraham is arguing about how to be wealthy quoting from someone called poor. Instead of sense of inferiority, this gives readers the approachableness for those proverbs.
On the other hand, in “Remarks Concerning the Savages” he starts his essay with this thesis “ Savages we call