Benjamin Franklin

(148 votes)   He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

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(146 votes)   Fatigue is the best pillow.

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(144 votes)   Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.

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1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

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(139 votes)   He that hath a trade hath an estate; he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor.

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(139 votes)   In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

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(138 votes)   Creditors have better memories than debtors.

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(138 votes)   Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves; but I give it fair quarter, wherever I meet with it, being persuaded that it is often productive of good to the possessor, and to others who are within his sphere of action: and therefore, in many cases, it would not be altogether absurd if a man were to thank God for his vanity among the other comforts of life.

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(135 votes)   He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

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(135 votes)   Plough deep while sluggards sleep.

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(130 votes)   Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.

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(129 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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(126 votes)   If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the happiness of his life than in giving him a thousand guineas. This sum may be soon spent, the regret only remaining of having foolishly consumed it; but in the other case, he escapes the frequent vexation of waiting for barbers, and of their sometimes dirty fingers, offensive breaths, and dull razors.

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(123 votes)   Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least you will, by such conduct, stand the best chance for such consequences.

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(118 votes)   A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.

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(116 votes)   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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1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

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