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Our attention span is simply shorter. Our willingness to put up with a difficult military situation and losses isn't what it used to be.


Charles Franklin

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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Drive thy business or it will drive thee.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowled...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN God heals and the doctor takes the fee.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN What has become clear to you since we last met?
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
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