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When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.


Benjamin Haydon

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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 Love well, whip well.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI A Conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI