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Benjamin Franklin Inspirational Quotes (781)

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A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
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Don't think so much of your own Cunning, as to forget other Men's a Cunning Man is overmatched by a cunning Man and a Half.
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He that can have patience can have what he will.
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Cheese and salt meat, should be sparingly eat.
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There was great difference in persons and discretion did not always accompany years, nor was youth always without it.
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There's many witty men whose brains can't fill their bellies.
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Graft good Fruit all, or graft not at all.
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The man that walks wit crowd, will get no farther than the crowd. The man that walks alone, will reach places unknown.
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An ounce of wit that is bought, Is worth a pound that is taught.
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Many have been ruined by buying good Pennyworths.
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The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse.
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He's gone, and forgot nothing but to say farewell to his creditors
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The borrower is a slave to the lender and the debtor to the creditor.
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Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.
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A man is not completely born until he is dead. Why then should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals, a new member added to their happy society?
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People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both.
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Is there anything men take more pains about than to render themselves unhappy?
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Fear to do ill, and you need fear else.
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When the well is dry, we know the worth of water.
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He that speaks ill of the mare will buy her.
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Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a mark of folly.
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All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. In my opinion, there never was a good war or a bad peace. When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?
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To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previosly unsusceptible.
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The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can to hearken to what is said and to answer to the purpose.
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