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| The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense. | Benjamin Franklin | 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat |
| He that won't be counseled can't be helped. | Benjamin Franklin | 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat |
| Learn of the skillful; he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master. | Benjamin Franklin | 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat |
| The things which hurt, instruct. | Benjamin Franklin | 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat |
| He that can have patience can have what he will. | Benjamin Franklin | 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat |
| There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous. | Benjamin Franklin | 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat |
| Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't. | Benjamin Franklin | 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat |
| 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! | Benjamin Franklin | 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat |
| There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self. | Benjamin Franklin | 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat |
| If you would know the value of money try to borrow some. | Benjamin Franklin | 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat |
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| If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time. | Benjamin Franklin | 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat |
| Drive your business, let not you're business drive you. | Benjamin Franklin | 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat |
| While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us. | Benjamin Franklin | 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat |
| Drive thy business or it will drive thee. | Benjamin Franklin | 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat |
| If we do not hang together, we will all hang separately. | Benjamin Franklin | 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat |
| We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately. | Benjamin Franklin | 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat |
| He that hath a trade hath an estate; he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honour. | Benjamin Franklin | 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat |
| If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone. | Benjamin Franklin | 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat |
| Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants. | Benjamin Franklin | 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat |
| He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money. | Benjamin Franklin | 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat |
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| The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money. | Benjamin Franklin | 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat |
| If your riches are yours, why don't you take them with to the other world? | Benjamin Franklin | 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat |
| Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion. | Benjamin Franklin | 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat |
| He who multiplies riches, multiplies cares. | Benjamin Franklin | 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat |
| The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse. | Benjamin Franklin | 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat |
| Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning. | Benjamin Franklin | 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat |
| Admiration is the daughter of ignorance. | Benjamin Franklin | 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat |
| The proof of gold is fire... | Benjamin Franklin | 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat |
| They that will not be counselled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles. | Benjamin Franklin | 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat |
| Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it. | Benjamin Franklin | 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat |
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| To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare. | Benjamin Franklin | 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat |
| Many foxes grow gray but few grow good. | Benjamin Franklin | 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat |
| Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young. | Benjamin Franklin | 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat |
| At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgement. | Benjamin Franklin | 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat |
| An old young man, will be a young old man. | Benjamin Franklin | 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat |
| If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life. | Benjamin Franklin | 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat |
| Clearly spoken, Mr. Fogg; you explain English by Greek. | Benjamin Franklin | 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat |
| 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. | Benjamin Franklin | 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat |
| Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame. | Benjamin Franklin | 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat |
| Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. | Benjamin Franklin | 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat |
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| He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face. | Benjamin Franklin | 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat |
| Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them. | Benjamin Franklin | 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat |
| That which resembles most living one's life over again, seems to be to recall all the circumstances of it; and, to render this remembrance more durable, to record them in writing. | Benjamin Franklin | 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat |
| A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors. | Benjamin Franklin | 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat |
| Beware the hobby that eats. | Benjamin Franklin | 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat |
| Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes. | Benjamin Franklin | 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat |
| In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. | Benjamin Franklin | 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat |
| When you're finished changing, you're finished. | Benjamin Franklin | 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat |
| A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather. | Benjamin Franklin | 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat |
| Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt. | Benjamin Franklin | 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat |
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