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Benjamin Chavis

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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Hide not your talents, they for use were made,
What's a sundial in the shade?
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal....
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Creditors have better memories than debtors.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN It destroys one's nerve to be amiable every day to the same human being.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Great countries are those that produce great people.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pai...
BENJAMIN BRITTEN We moralize among ruins.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for mon...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He has not a single redeeming defect.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN When I reflect, as I frequently do, upon the felicity I have enjoyed, I sometimes say to myself, tha...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to th...
BENJAMIN SPOCK The fact is that child rearing is a long, hard job, the rewards are not always immediately obvious, ...
BENJAMIN SPOCK Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.
BENJAMIN SPOCK