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Quotes of Benjamin Franklin [27]
- Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.
- There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
- Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
- Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.
- Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.
- Well done is better than well said.
- There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
- Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
- If you wouldst live long, live well, for folly and wickedness shorten life.
- If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.
- Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade?
- He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
- He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
- Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to get leisure.
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