Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
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Many complain of their memory, few of their judgment.
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The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfortunes, and wisdom enough to manage the affairs, of his neighbor.
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You may delay, but time will not.
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All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. In my opinion, there never was a good war or a bad peace. When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?
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To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girlfriends.
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Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
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Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
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Fatigue is the best pillow.
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He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
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Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves; but I give it fair quarter, wherever I meet with it, being persuaded that it is often productive of good to the possessor, and to others who are within his sphere of action: and therefore, in many cases, it would not be altogether absurd if a man were to thank God for his vanity among the other comforts of life.
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Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.
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They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
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Anger and folly walk cheek by jole.
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Promises may fit the friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.
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Fish and visitors smell in three days.
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The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
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He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines.
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If a man could have half his wishes, he would double his troubles.
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The doors of wisdom are never shut.
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In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
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Creditors have better memories than debtors.
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If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
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Buy what thou hast no Need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy Necessaries.
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Without justice courage is weak.
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There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
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For want of a Nail the Shoe was lost; for want of a Shoe the Horse was lost; and for want of a Horse the Rider was lost; being overtaken and slain by the Enemy, all for want of Care about a Horse-shoe Nail.
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Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
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Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
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To follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.
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He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.
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Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.
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I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.
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We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
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Anyone who trades liberty for security deserves neither liberty nor security.
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Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
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A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.
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Many estates are spent in the getting, since women for tea forsake spinning and knitting, and men for punch forsake hewing and splitting.
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Anger is never without a reason but seldom a good one.
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To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
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