Benjamin Franklin
American statesman and physicist
Lived from: 1706 - 1790
Category: Politics | Scientists Country: United States
Born: 17 january 1706 Died: 17 april 1790
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Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires.
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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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The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
― Benjamin Franklin
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