Benjamin Franklin quote: "For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise."

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.
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If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, th...
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Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no m...
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When the well is dry, they know the worth of water.
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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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So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reas...
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Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
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You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?
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A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can scarce ever be spent.
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He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.
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He that has not got a wife is not yet a complete man.
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Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the laz...
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When you're finished changing, you're finished.
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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.
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To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.
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Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.
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Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
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If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately.
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An egg today is better than a hen to-morrow.
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When in doubt, don't.
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There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
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Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?
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Lost time is never found again.
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A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
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Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
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If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
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All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.
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Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
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Distrust and caution are the parents of security.
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Hunger is the best pickle.
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A Swedish minister having assembled the chiefs of the Susquehanna Indians, made a sermon to them, ac...
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A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
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Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. ...
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Remember, that money is of the prolific, generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring...
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Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.
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One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.
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Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
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He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.
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If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
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Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.
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Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as publick Liber...
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We assemble parliaments and councils, to have the benefit of their collected wisdom; but we necessar...
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God grant, that not only the Love of Liberty, but a thorough Knowledge of the Rights of Man, may per...
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Whilst the last members were signing the Constitution, Doctor Franklin, looking towards the Presiden...
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In these sentiments, sir, I agree to this Constitution, with all its faults, if they are such; becau...
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Has not the famous political Fable of the Snake, with two Heads and one Body, some useful Instructio...
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When I was a child of seven years old, my friends, on a holiday, filled my pocket with coppers. I we...
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Rich widows are the only secondhand goods that sell at first-class prices.
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Well, Doctor, what have we gota Republic or a Monarchy?A Republic, if you can keep it.
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We must not in the course of public life expect immediate approbation and immediate grateful acknowl...
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My rule, in which I have always found satisfaction, is, never to turn aside in public affairs throug...
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I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge ...
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For want of a Nail the Shoe was lost; for want of a Shoe the Horse was lost; and for want of a Horse...
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Who is wise? He that learns from every One. Who is powerful? He that governs his Passions. Who is ri...
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A plural Legislature is as necessary to good Government as a single Executive. It is not enough that...
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Dr. FRANKLIN mentioned the case of the Prince of Orange William V, during the late war. An arrangeme...
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Dr. Franklin was for retaining the clause on impeachment, as favorable to the executive. History fur...
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That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a...
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The small progress we have made after four or five weeks close attendance and continual reasonings w...
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I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this trut...
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The sleeping fox catches no poultry.
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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.
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Never confuse motion with action.
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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the mo...
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Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.
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I condole with you, we have lost a most dear and valuable relation, but it is the will of God and Na...
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Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tenden...
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Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.
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He who waits upon fortune is never sure of dinner.
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Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.
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Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.
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One today is worth two tomorrows.
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Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
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The most important four words for a successful marriage: 'I'll do the dishes.'
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Sometimes when I close my eyes, I can't see.
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In God we trust; all others must pay cash.
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Marriage is a wonderful institution... but who wants to live in an institution?
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Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
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What great energy, intelligence, and magnificent beautiful eyes... But enough about me, how are you ...
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The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
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They who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Lib...
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A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned
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I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.
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Hide not your talents, they for use were made,
What's a sundial in the shade?
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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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A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal....
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If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more...
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Creditors have better memories than debtors.
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If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
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He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for mon...
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A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.
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When I reflect, as I frequently do, upon the felicity I have enjoyed, I sometimes say to myself, tha...
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Love well, whip well.
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Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
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Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
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Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
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I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish gre...
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For the want of a nail, the shoe was lose; for the want of a shoe the horse was lose; and for the wa...
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Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.
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There never was a good war or a bad peace.
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He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
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A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
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He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ...
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Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn.
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He's a fool that makes his doctor his heir.
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There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
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Observe all men, thyself most.
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Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.
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Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.
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Where liberty is, there is my country.
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They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty ...
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That which resembles most living one's life over again, seems to be to recall all the circumstances ...
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The things which hurt, instruct.
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He that won't be counseled can't be helped.
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Learn of the skillful; he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master.
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Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.
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Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright.
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Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all da...
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Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.
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Laws too gentle, are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
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She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.
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The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense...
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Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. The...
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He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the ...
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Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.
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Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
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They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the...
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Those that won't be counseled can't be helped.
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Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite ...
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There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means -- either ...
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Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great piece...
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A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather.
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The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
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The proof of gold is fire...
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When you're finished changing, you're finished.
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So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frug...
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If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, an...
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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.
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Clearly spoken, Mr. Fogg; you explain English by Greek.
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The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust...
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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.
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While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
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Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.
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Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
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You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.
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Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man...
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If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowled...
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God heals and the doctor takes the fee.
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He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines.
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What has become clear to you since we last met?
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It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
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If you desire many things, many things will seem few.
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Our necessities never equal our wants.
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Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
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Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?
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Lying rides upon debt's back.
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If you would know the value of money try to borrow some.
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He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for...
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There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.
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If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do thing...
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In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.
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The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.
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Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
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We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
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If we do not hang together, we will all hang separately.
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Nothing is more fatal to health than an over care of it.
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To lengthen thy Life, lessen thy meals.
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Take time for all things; great haste makes great waste.
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Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.
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It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
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There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
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To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.
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He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
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I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people.
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Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.
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Promises may fit the friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.
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When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.
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Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones -- with ingratitude.
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Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of ...
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Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.
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Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
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Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade.
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Tomorrow every fault is to be amended; but tomorrow never comes.
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To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties...
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He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.
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It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance.
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Most fools think they are only ignorant.
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The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfort...
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One should eat to live, not live to eat.
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God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervad...
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Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.
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He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have...
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Don't judge men's wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance.
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The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
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Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
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If you would keep your secret from an enemy,
tell it not to a friend.
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Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be ...
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Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.
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Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
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For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.

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Benjamin Franklin

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.

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