An Ounce

Looking past his incredibly good looking first name, Benjamin Franklin once said something that has never made much sense to me:

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

Are you as confused as I am from that statement? Hey Mr. Franklin, how about "a muskox of work is better than a toadstool of talking."

The thing is, I have seen an ounce. Well, I went to see an ounce, but there weren't any home at the time. It was at a Kyrgyz Republic national park and Planet Earth even once did a documentary on the ounce in this vicinity; but there were none to be found. They do live here. Wikipedia says so:

And if there is anyone that knows what an ounce is, it is a Bishkek resident. Man, come on—it's on our Coat of Arms.

кыргызский народ, Высокие горы, заветная наша земля.

And don't you forget it.