Benjamin Franklin Quotes

A little neglect may breed mischief . . . 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.

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The noblest question in the world is 'What good may I do in it'

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Half wits talk much, but say little.

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The best investment is in the tools of one's own trade.

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Strange that a Man who has wit enough to write a Satire should have folly enough to publish it.

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To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.

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A poet is the mere wastepaper of mankind.

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Let thy discontents be thy secrets.

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Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.

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A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.

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If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

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Games lubricate the body and the mind.

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Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.

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Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.

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God will certainly reward virtue and punish vice, either here or hereafter.

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God heals and the doctor takes the fees.

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If a man could half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

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He who waits upon fortune is never sure of dinner.

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It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance.

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There is always room for the man of force.

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Drink does not drown care, but waters it, and makes it grow faster.

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Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

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