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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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The way to wealth depends on just two words, industry and frugality.
Benjamin Franklin
Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.
Benjamin Franklin
Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least you will, by such conduct, stand the be.
Benjamin Franklin
The doors of wisdom are never shut.
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I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth — that God governs in the affairs of men.
Benjamin Franklin
Tis against some mens principle to pay interest, and seems against others interest to pay the principle.
Benjamin Franklin
You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.
Benjamin Franklin
There is scarce a king in a hundred who would not, if he could, follow the example of Pharoah - get first all the people's money, then all their lands, and then make them and their children servants forever.
Benjamin Franklin
A man is sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps through fear of being thought to have but little.
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When about 16 Years of Age, I happened to meet with a Book written by one Tryon, recommending a Vegetable Diet. I determined to go into it.... My refusing to eat Flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chid for my singularity.
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It's the easiest thing in the world for a man to deceive himself.
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You cannot always run from a weakness. You must sometime fight it out or perish.
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He that won't be counseled can't be helped.
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A fine genius in his own country is like gold in the mine.
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The borrower is a slave to the lender and the debtor to the creditor.
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Let honesty be as the breath of thy soul then shalt thou reach the point of happiness, and independence shall be thy shield and buckler, thy helmet and crown then shall thy soul walk upright, nor stoop to the silken wretch because he hath riches, nor pocket an abuse because the hand which offers it wears a ring set with diamonds.
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Acquire Riches by Industry and Frugality.
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Think What You Do When You Run in Debt: You Give to Another Power over Your Liberty
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I have been apt to think that there has never been, nor ever will be, any such thing as a good war, or a bad peace.
Benjamin Franklin
Read much, but not too many books.
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