Benjamin Franklin Quotes

A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
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A good conscience is a continual Christmas.
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A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.
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A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
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A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
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A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
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A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
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A penny saved is a penny earned.
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A place for everything, everything in its place.
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A small leak can sink a great ship.
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Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
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Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
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All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.
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All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.
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All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.
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An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
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And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief,Depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.
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Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.
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Applause waits on success.
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As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
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At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.
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Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
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Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
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Beauty and folly are old companions.
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Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
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Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
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Beware the hobby that eats.
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Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.
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By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
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Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
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Clean your finger before you point at my spots.
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Creditors have better memories than debtors.
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Diligence is the mother of good luck.
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Distrust and caution are the parents of security.
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Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
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Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.
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Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.
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Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
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Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.
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Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.
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Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
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Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
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Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.
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Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.
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Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
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For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.
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Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.
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Games lubricate the body and the mind.
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Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
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God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.
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Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
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Half a truth is often a great lie.
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Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
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He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.
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He that can have patience can have what he will.
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He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.
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He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.
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He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
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He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
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He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.
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He that rises late must trot all day.
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He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.
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He that won't be counseled can't be helped.
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He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
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He that's secure is not safe.
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He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
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He who waits upon fortune is never sure of dinner.
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Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her.
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Honesty is the best policy.
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Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
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Hunger is the best pickle.
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I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.
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I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.
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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.
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I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.
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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.
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I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.
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If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.
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If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.
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If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.
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If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
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If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
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If you desire many things, many things will seem few.
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If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
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If you would be loved, love and be lovable.
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If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.
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If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
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If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.
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If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.
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In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
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In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.
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In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
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In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
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Industry need not wish.
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It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
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It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
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It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
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It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.
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It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.
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It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
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Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
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Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
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Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.
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Let thy discontents be thy secrets.
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Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.
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Lost time is never found again.
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Many a long dispute among divines may be thus abridged: It is so. It is not so. It is so. It is not so.
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Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
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Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.
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Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.
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Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.
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