“Fish and visitors stink in three days.”

Adapted 16th century writer John Lyly's line http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2015/03/ben-franklins-best-epigrams/ found in Euphues – the Anatomy of Wit: Fish and guests in three days are stale.
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American author, printer, political theorist, politician, p… 1706–1790

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