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The American usage is best known through  Benjamin Franklin : "For the want of a  nail ,; the shoe was lost;; for the want of a shoe the  horse  was lost; and 
In what  poem  is the phrase "for the want of a  nail " found? - Yahoo 
He pushed his way through the stalks, trying not to let his  nails  dig into .... --Ben and Me: An Astonishing Life of  Benjamin Franklin  by His Good  Mouse Amos, .... Here he has taken a  poem  by a  French  surrealist poet and made it into a ..... her imaginary friend when questioned by the  horse -faced school counselor. 
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28 Dec 2006  The life of  Benjamin Franklin  is of importance to every American  primarily because ...... all for the want of Care about a  Horse -shoe  Nail . 
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10 Jan 2011  all for want of care about a  horse -shoe  nail . - Benjamin Franklin   Note the similarities of the  French  quote below by Jean Molinet, 
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---D.H. Lawrence, beginning of the " Benjamin Franklin " essay, .... museau , which sounds  flattering in the English, but translates as "snout" in  French . 
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By  Benjamin Franklin  ( Benjamin Franklin ). Vacating an Apartment By Agha Shahid Ali (Agha Shahid Ali). Vagabonds First appeared in  Poetry  
 Benjamin Franklin . Vol. III. The Growth of the National  Spirit 
For want of a  nail  the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the  horse  is lost, ..... Interpretation: keynesian alteration of  Ben Franklin's  original saying ["A 
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 Franklin ,  Benjamin , extracts from The World's Wit and Humor, Poor Richard to the Courteous Reader,  all for want of a little care about a  horseshoe nail ! 
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For want of a  Nail  the Shoe was lost; for want of a Shoe the  Horse  was lost;   Benjamin Franklin  (January 17, 1706 April 17, 1790) was one of the most prominent of  His  success in securing  French  military and financial aid was decisive for  Dont teach my boy  poetry , an... Must a government, of necess. 
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3 posts - 2 authors - Last post: 16 Jan 2008[Archive] That  poem  by Robert Jolles Hope re: want of a  nail  Countryside  version credited to  Benjamin Franklin's  Poor Richard's Almanac. 
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 is the one which appeared in  Benjamin Franklin 's "Poor Richard's Almanac":  And all for the want of a  horseshoe nail . Said  poem  is itself derived from a verse .... if Aunt May had been killed by the Burglar instead of Uncle Ben, etc. ..... Thursday points out that this couldn't possibly be the work of  French  
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6 Dec 2009   FRENCH  SILK needs to be followed by the word "pie" to be a food. ..... lo and  behold, we find that the word appears in a Ted Hughes  poem , "Tractor". .... This prehistoric [Ancestor of the modern  horse ] was much smaller than today's equines and   Ben  Tausig's Ink Well/Chicago Reader crossword, ". 
The prefaces, proverbs, and  poems  of  Benjamin Franklin  
The  French -men haue a military prouerbe, The losse of a nayle, the losse of an  and for want of a  horse  the rider was lost. </ poem >. - Benjamin Franklin  
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Do ' Horseshoe Nails ' really alter human history?  That innocent little  poem  contains a theory of cause and effect.  What if lightning had killed  Ben Franklin , as it did so many people who tried to replicate his kite experiment? 
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Trent and Wells, eds. 1901. Colonial Prose and  Poetry .  At the time of the  French  War (1754)  Franklin  was the most important man in Pennsylvania, ..... for want of a  nail  the shoe was lost, for want of a shoe the  horse  was lost, 
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