Benjamin Franklin

(57 votes)   If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

Benjamin Franklin
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(57 votes)   Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright.

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

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(55 votes)   And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief,Depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

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(53 votes)   God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!

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1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

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(53 votes)   One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

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1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

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(53 votes)   Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.

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1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

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(53 votes)   The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either.

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(51 votes)   An old young man, will be a young old man.

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(51 votes)   He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

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(51 votes)   The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

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(51 votes)   The proof of gold is fire...

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1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

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(50 votes)   Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

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1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

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(49 votes)   Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

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(49 votes)   He does not posses wealth that allows it to possess him.

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(49 votes)   One should eat to live, not live to eat.

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1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

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