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Benjamin Franklin


American
January 17, 1706
Politician
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Time is money.


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Observe all men, thyself most.


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Tags: Men Most Observe
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A place for everything, everything in its place.


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Games lubricate the body and the mind.


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Tags: Mind Body Games
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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.


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He that speaks much, is much mistaken.


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Tags: He Much Speaks
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Those that won't be counseled can't be helped.


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Tags: Those Helped
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God helps those who help themselves.


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Tags: God Who Those
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Distrust and caution are the parents of security.


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You may delay, but time will not.


Benjamin Franklin
Tags: Time You Will
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When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.


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An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.


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An egg today is better than a hen to-morrow.


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Tags: Than Better Today
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Half a truth is often a great lie.


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Tags: Great Truth Often
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The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise.


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Tags: Most Makes Worst
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He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.


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Tags: Never He Sure
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Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.


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Tags: Them Two Keep
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The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.


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Tags: Money Having Use
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Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.


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A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.


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Tags: Up Very Man
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Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.


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Tags: Being Much Learn
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Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.


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Tags: Never He Nothing
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When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?


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


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Tags: Out Than Go
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I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.


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Tags: Just Wrong Found
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Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter.


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Tags: Money Easter Who
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If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.


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Tags: You Like Would
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Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.


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Tags: God See Us
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Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.


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Tags: Man Makes Early
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A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.


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Tags: Only While Friend
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It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.


Benjamin Franklin
Tags: Than Much First
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There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.


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Tags: Time Great Never
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How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.


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Tags: Courage Who Them
The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
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Tags: Happiness You Up
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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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Tags: Who Man Working
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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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When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.


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Tags: Men His Part
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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Tags: You Me Man
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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Tags: You More Than
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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Tags: Life Go Only