Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin was an American inventor, journalist, printer, diplomat, and statesman.
Found 199 thoughts of Benjamin Franklin
There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
Benjamin Franklin
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
Benjamin Franklin
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
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I believe I shall,in some shape or other,always exist; and, with all the inconveniences human life is liable to, I shall not object to a new edition of mine, hoping, however, that the errata of the last may be corrected.
Benjamin Franklin
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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Take it from Richard, poor and lame, what's begun in anger ends in shame.
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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.
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Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade?
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Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
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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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Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones; the difference is only in the price.
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They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.
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