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Benjamin Franklin quotes, quotations, sayings

Love well, whip well.
Benjamin Franklin
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Shakespeare, Leonardo Da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin, and Lincoln never saw a movie, heard a radio, or looked at a TV They had loneliness and knew what to do with it. They were not afraid of being lonely because they knew that was when the creative mood in them would mark.
Carl Sa
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Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.
Benjamin Franklin
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Lying rides upon debt's back.
Benjamin Franklin
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Applause waits on success.
Benjamin Franklin
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Observe all men, thyself most.
Benjamin Franklin
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In rivers and bad governments, the lightest things swim at the top.
Benjamin Franklin
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There is no wisdom like frankness.
Benjamin Disraeli
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Be civil to all sociable to many familiar with few friend to one enemy to none.
Benjamin Franklin
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Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.
Winston Churchill
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Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy.
Benjamin Franklin
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There are no gains without pains.
Benjamin Franklin
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There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.
Benjamin Franklin
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Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy.
Benjamin Franklin
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You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.
Benjamin Franklin
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Frank It's the same old story. Boy finds girl, boy loses girl, girl finds boy, boy forgets girl, boy remembers girl, girls dies in a tragic blimp accident over the Orange Bowl on New Year's Day.
Naked Gun From the Files of Police Squad
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The drama's altar isn't on the stage: it is candle-sticked and flowered in the box office. There is the gold, though there be no frankincense or myrrh; and the gospel for the day always The Play will Run for a Year. The Dove of Inspiration, of the desire for inspiration, has flown away from it; and on it's roof, now, the commonplace crow caws candidly.
Sean O'Casey
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I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge of her faults, and whether she has the virtues I imagine she has? Answer. Commend her among her female acquaintances.
Benjamin Franklin
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In an extensive reading of recent books by psychologists, psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, and inspirationalists, I have discovered that they all suffer from one or more of these expression-complexes: italicizing, capitalizing, exclamation-pointing, multiple-interrogating, and itemizing. These are all forms of what the psychos themselves would call, if they faced their condition frankly, Rhetorical-Over-Compensation.
James Thurber
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God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!
Benjamin Franklin
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He is a fool that cannot conceal his wisdom.
Benjamin Franklin
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Might as well be frank, monsieur. It would take a miracle to get you out of Casablanca and the Germans have outlawed miracles.
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Our critics are our friends; they show us our faults.
Benjamin Franklin
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Critics are our friends, they tell us our faults.
Benjamin Franklin
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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.
Benjamin Franklin
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To lengthen thy Life, lessen thy meals
Benjamin Franklin
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By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make wild claims, they do not cheat, they do not try to persuade at any cost, they appeal neither to prejudice nor to authority, they are often frank about their ignorance, their disputes are fairly decorous, they do not confuse what is being argued with race, politics, sex or age, they listen patiently to the young and to the old who both know everything. These are the general virtues of scholarship, and they are peculiarly the virtues of science.
Jacob Bronowski
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If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
Benjamin Franklin
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Your fortune stateth: You are scrupulously honest, frank, and straightforward. Therefore you have few friends.
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Dick, frankly you do not have the war plan... which makes me quite happy.
Donald Rumsfeld, 1st briefing after 'shock and awe' started
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One should eat to live, not live to eat.
Benjamin Franklin
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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
Henrik Ibsen
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An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin
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Frank knew that no man had ever crossed the desert on foot and lived to tell about it. So, he decided to get back in his car and keep driving.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.
Benjamin Franklin
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When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.
Benjamin Franklin
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Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
Benjamin Franklin
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When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.
Benjamin Franklin
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An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin
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Do good to thy Friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him.
Benjamin Franklin
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The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
Benjamin Franklin
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All would live long, but none would be old.
Benjamin Franklin
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He who falls in love with himself, will have no rivals.
Ben Franklin
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There are three great friends an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
Benjamin Franklin
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Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
Benjamin Franklin
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Beanie I have a wife and kids. Do I seem like a happy guy to you, Frank
Old School
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Wealth is not his that has it, but his who enjoys it.
Benjamin Franklin
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Many complain of their memory, few of their judgment.
Benjamin Franklin
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Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.
Benjamin Franklin
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Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.
Benjamin Franklin
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