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If a song's about something I've experienced or that could've happened to me it's good. But if it's alien to me, I couldn't lend anything to it. Because that's what soul is all about.


Aretha Franklin

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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He's a fool that makes his doctor his heir.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Observe all men, thyself most.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Where liberty is, there is my country.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN That which resembles most living one's life over again, seems to be to recall all the circumstances ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The things which hurt, instruct.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He that won't be counseled can't be helped.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Learn of the skillful; he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all da...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Laws too gentle, are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense...
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