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Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer [more author details]
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- A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
- Benjamin Franklin
- A good conscience is a continual Christmas.
- Benjamin Franklin
- A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.
- Benjamin Franklin
- All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
- Benjamin Franklin
- All would live long, but none would be old.
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- An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
- Benjamin Franklin
- Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
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- At 20 years of age the will reigns, at 30 the wit, at 40 the judgment.
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- At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty the wit; at forty the judgement.
- Benjamin Franklin
- Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.
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- Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin
- Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.
- Benjamin Franklin
- By my rambling digressions I perceive myself to be growing old.
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- Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.
- Benjamin Franklin
- Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin
- Drive thy business or it will drive thee.
- Benjamin Franklin
- Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
- Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.
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- Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to get leisure.
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- Energy and persistence conquer all things.
- Benjamin Franklin
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