Benjamin Franklin Quotes

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Benjamin Franklin

Profession : Politician

Birth : January 17, 1706

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?

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He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.

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There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

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The first mistake in public business is the going into it.

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I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.

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No nation was ever ruined by trade.

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Our necessities never equal our wants.

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Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

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Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

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The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.

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For my own part, I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen the representative of our country. He is a bird of bad moral character. He does not get his living honestly.

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Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.

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Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.

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Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.

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Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

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He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

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If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.

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My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.

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Danger is sauce for prayers.

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

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