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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
If you desire many things, many things will seem few.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Our necessities never equal our wants.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Lying rides upon debt's back.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
If you would know the value of money try to borrow some.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do thing...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
If we do not hang together, we will all hang separately.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Nothing is more fatal to health than an over care of it.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
To lengthen thy Life, lessen thy meals.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Take time for all things; great haste makes great waste.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Promises may fit the friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones -- with ingratitude.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN