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Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

American statesman and physicist

Lived from: 1706 - 1790

Category: Politics | Scientists Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 17 january 1706 Died: 17 april 1790

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  • Clearly spoken, Mr. Fogg; you explain English by Greek.
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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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  • Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
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  • Don't judge men's wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance.
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  • Don't throw stones at your neighbors , if your own windows are glass.
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  • Drive thy business or it will drive thee.
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  • Drive your business, let not you're business drive you.
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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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  • Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
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  • Experience keeps a school, yet 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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  • For the want of a nail, the shoe was lose; for the want of a shoe the horse was lose; and for the want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for the want of care about a horseshoe nail.
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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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  • Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well.
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  • God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!
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  • God heals and the doctor takes the fee.
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