| 280 Famous Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
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“Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.”
Dress Quotes |
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“A penny saved is two pence clear, A pin a day's a groat a year.”
Economy Quotes |
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“Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.”
Economy Quotes |
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“Ere you consult your fancy, consult your purse.”
Economy Quotes |
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“Let honesty and industry be thy constant companions, and spend one penny less than thy clear gains; then shall thy pocket begin to thrive; creditors will not insult, nor want oppress, nor hungerness bite, nor nakedness freeze thee.”
Economy Quotes |
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“If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.”
Education Quotes |
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“There is no little enemy.”
Enemy Quotes |
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“The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.”
Eye Quotes |
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“He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.”
Family Quotes |
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“He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.”
Fortune Quotes |
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“Genius without education is like silver in the mine.”
Genius Quotes |
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“In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.”
Glutton Quotes |
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“One should eat to live, not live to eat.”
Glutton Quotes |
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“Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.”
Government Quotes |
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“Each year, one vicious habit rooted out, in time ought to make the worst man good.”
Habit Quotes |
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“The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of the wise man is in his heart. -Benjamin Franklin.”
Heart-quotes Quotes |
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“He that hath a trade hath an estate; he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor.”
Labor Quotes |
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“The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearne, but it is still nonsense.”
Language Quotes |
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“God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.”
Lawyers Quotes |
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“Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.”
Leisure Quotes |
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“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”
Liberty Quotes |
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“Where liberty is, there is my country.”
Liberty Quotes |
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“Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.”
Life Quotes |
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“He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.”
Love Quotes |
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“Half the truth is often a great lie.”
Lying Quotes |
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Benjamin Franklin Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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