Benjamin Franklin Quotes

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Benjamin Franklin

Profession : Politician

Birth : January 17, 1706

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

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Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.

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All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.

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Beauty and folly are old companions.

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I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

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A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.

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Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

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Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

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Nine men in ten are would be suicides.

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Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

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Beware the hobby that eats.

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As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.

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There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

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The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

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It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

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When the well is dry, they know the worth of water.

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I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

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If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

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When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

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