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Mine is better than ours.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

Each year one vicious habit d...

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

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

Tomorrow, every Fault is to b...

Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

A child thinks 20 shillings a...

A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can scarce ever be spent.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

My elder brothers were all pu...

My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

He that composes himself is w...

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

Where sense is wanting, every...

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

He that sows thorns should ne...

He that sows thorns should never go barefoot.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

Never take a wife till thou h...

Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

A learned blockhead is a grea...

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

Those who govern, having much...

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

Those disputing, contradictin...

Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

I should have no objection to...

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

There cannot be a stronger na...

There cannot be a stronger natural right than that of a man's making the best profit he can of the natural produce of his lands.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

Since thou are not sure of a ...

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

All highly competent people c...

All highly competent people continually search for ways to keep learning, growing, and improving. They do that by asking WHY. After all, the person who knows HOW will always have a job, but the person who knows WHY will always be the boss.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

If you do tomorrow what you d...

If you do tomorrow what you did today , you will get tomorrow what you got today

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

Little minds think and talk a...

Little minds think and talk about people. Average minds think and talk about things and actions. Great minds think and talk about ideas.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

If everyone is thinking alike...

If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

Security without liberty is c...

Security without liberty is called prison.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

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