Benjamin Franklin

(35 votes)   The way to wealth depends on just two words, industry and frugality.

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

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(34 votes)   A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.

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(34 votes)   Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.

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(33 votes)   A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.

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(33 votes)   Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

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(33 votes)   He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.

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(33 votes)   Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

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(33 votes)   Vice knows that she is ugly, so she puts on her mask.

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1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

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(33 votes)   Well done is better than well said.

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(32 votes)   A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

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(32 votes)   All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.

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(32 votes)   To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible.

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1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

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(32 votes)   We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.

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(31 votes)   Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

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(31 votes)   Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

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