A cliche is more than a maxim with which one disagrees. Franklin also said in Poor Richard's Almanack, "Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor Liberty to purc

A cliche is more than a maxim with which one disagrees. Franklin also said in Poor Richard's Almanack, "Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor Liberty to purchase power." (https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Poor_Richard%27s_Almanack https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Poor_Richard%27s_Almanack) This was 17 years before the line in his "Reply to the Governor".