Benjamin Franklin Quotes

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Benjamin Franklin

Profession : Politician

Birth : January 17, 1706

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

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Industry need not wish.

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He that's secure is not safe.

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In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.

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The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.

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Where there is a free government, and the people make their own laws by their representatives, I see no injustice in their obliging one another to take their own paper money.

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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

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I have no private interest in the reception of my inventions by the world, having never made, nor proposed to make, the least profit by any of them.

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She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.

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It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

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There cannot be a stronger natural right than that of a man's making the best profit he can of the natural produce of his lands.

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When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.

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Remember that credit is money.

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Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

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From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books. Pleased with the 'Pilgrim's Progress,' my first collection was of John Bunyan's works in separate little volumes.

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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.

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He that has not got a wife is not yet a complete man.

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Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.

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He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.

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