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A lonely man on a rainy night...

A lonely man on a rainy night who cannot read.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

He that drinks fast, pays slo...

He that drinks fast, pays slow.
Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
There can't be good living where there is not good drinking.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

As to the kindness you mentio...

As to the kindness you mention, I wish I could have been of more service to you than I have been, but if I had, the only thanks that I should desire are that you would always be ready to serve any other person that may need your assistance, and so let good offices go around, for humankind are all of a family. As for my own part, when I am employed in serving others I do not look upon myself as conferring favors but paying debts.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

an enormous proportion of pro...

an enormous proportion of property vested in a few individuals is dangerous to the rights, and destructive of the common happiness of mankind, and, therefore, every free state hath a right by its laws to discourage the possession of such property.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

The Golden Age was never the ...

The Golden Age was never the present age.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

[It was] the poverty caused b...

[It was] the poverty caused by the bad influence of the English bankers on the Parliament which has caused in the colonies hatred of the English and . . . the Revolutionary War.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

Those who are content have en...

Those who are content have enough; those that complain, have too much.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

If this lady is pleased to sp...

If this lady is pleased to spend her days with Franklin, he would be just as pleased to spend his nights with her.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

Ben Franklin was a little sto...

Ben Franklin was a little stout later in life and it was said that in Paris a young woman, tapping him on his protruding abdomen, said,"Dr. Franklin, if this were on a woman, we'd know what to think." And Franklin replied,"Half an hour ago, Mademoiselle, it was on a woman, and now what do you think?"

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

In Truth I found myself incor...

In Truth I found myself incorrigible with respect to Order; and now I am grown old, and my Memory bad, I feel very sensibly the want of it.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

A child thinks 20 shillings a...

A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can never be spent.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

Keep out of the Sight of Feas...

Keep out of the Sight of Feasts and Banquets as much as may be; for 'tis more difficult to refrain good Cheer, when it's present, than from the Desire of it when it is away; the like you may observe in the Objects of all the other Senses.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

Increase in me that wisdom
...

Increase in me that wisdom
Which discovers my truest interest,
Strengthen my resolution
To perform that which wisdom dictates.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

"We hold these truths to be s...

"We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable" in a draft of the Declaration of Independence changes it instead into an assertion of rationality. The scientific mind of Franklin drew on the scientific determinism of Isaac Newton and the analytic empiricism of David Hume and Gottfried Leibniz. In what became known as "Hume's Fork" the latters' theory distinguished between synthetic truths that describe matters of fact, and analytic truths that are self-evident by virtue of reason and definition.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

That the vegetable creation s...

That the vegetable creation should restore the air which is spoiled by the animal part of it, looks like a rational system, and seems to be of a piece with the rest.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

Philosophy as well as foppery...

Philosophy as well as foppery often changes fashion.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

A wicked Hero will turn his b...

A wicked Hero will turn his back to an innocent coward.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

None are deceived but they th...

None are deceived but they that confide.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

He that speaks ill of the mar...

He that speaks ill of the mare will buy her.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

Beer is God's way of telling ...

Beer is God's way of telling us that he loves us and wants us to be happy.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

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