Benjamin Franklin

(42 votes)   Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

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(41 votes)   As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

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(41 votes)   Remember that credit is money.

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(41 votes)   What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been employed in works of public utility; what an extension of agriculture even to the tops of our mountains; what rivers rendered navigable, or joined by canals; what bridges, aqueducts, new roads, and other public works, edifices, and improvements might not have been obtained by spending those millions in doing good, which in the last war have been spent in doing mischief.

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(40 votes)   He that's secure is not safe.

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(40 votes)   I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he first forms a good plan, and, cutting off all amusements or other employments that would divert his attention, make the execution of that same plan his sole study and business.

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(40 votes)   If your riches are yours, why don't you take them with to the other world?

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(40 votes)   Lost time is never found again.

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(40 votes)   Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

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(40 votes)   Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason.

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1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

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(39 votes)   If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

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1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

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(39 votes)   Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.

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1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

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(39 votes)   Promises may fit the friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.

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1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

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(39 votes)   The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.

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(39 votes)   Three can keep a secret if two are dead.

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