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Quotes By author - Starting with B - Benjamin Franklin
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There are 223 quotes for the author Benjamin Franklin
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For the want of a nail, the shoe was lose; for the want of a shoe the horse was lose; and for the want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for the want of care about a horseshoe nail.
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Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
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I am a strong believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.
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Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
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Beware of small expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.
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Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright.
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Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
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Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires.
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Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.
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You may delay, but time will not.
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Let thy discontents be thy secrets.
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We must all hang together or assuredly we will all hang seperately.
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All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.
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If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
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Hunger is the best pickle.
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A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
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We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
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Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.
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The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends; never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can; to hearken to what is said and to answer to the purpose.
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