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Jane Fonda popularized the phrase \u201cno pain, no gain\u201d in her exercise videos of the 1980s. But we all know Fonda nicked it from Ben Franklin\u2019s Poor Richard. \u201cThere are no Gains without Pains,\u201d runs just one of a thousand aphorisms in Franklin\u2019s 1758 essay, \u201cThe Way to Wealth.\u201d And Ben pinched it from seventeenth […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1270,"featured_media":1755,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[82,330,353,587],"class_list":["post-442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spiritual-growth","tag-ben-franklin","tag-ignatius-of-antioch","tag-jane-fonda","tag-robert-herrick"],"yoast_head":"\n
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