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Marry your son when you will, ...

Marry your son when you will, but you daughter when you can.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

He gives twice that gives soon...

He gives twice that gives soon, i.e., he will soon be called to give again.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

I early found that when I work...

I early found that when I worked for myself alone, myself alone worked for me; but when I worked for others also, others worked also for me.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

Wherever desirable superfluiti...

Wherever desirable superfluities are imported, industry is excited, and thereby plenty is produced. Were only necessaries permitted to be purchased, men would work no more than was necessary for that purpose.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

Justice is as strictly due bet...

Justice is as strictly due between neighbor nations as between neighbor citizens.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

Great spenders are bad lenders...

Great spenders are bad lenders.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

Let thy discontents be thy sec...

Let thy discontents be thy secrets; if the world knows them 'twill despise thee and increase them.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

The busy man has few idle visi...

The busy man has few idle visitors; to the boiling pot the flies come not.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

Sloth makes all things difficu...

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all things easy.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

We are not certain, we are nev...

We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously.
In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

An infallible Remedy for the T...

An infallible Remedy for the Tooth-ach, viz Wash the Root of an aching Tooth, in Elder Vinegar, and let it dry half an hour in the Sun; after which it will never ach more; Probatum est.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

Don't go to the doctor with ev...

Don't go to the doctor with every distemper, nor to the lawyer with every quarrel, nor to the pot for every thirst.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

In New England they once thoug...

In New England they once thought blackbirds useless, and mischievous to the corn. They made efforts to destroy them. The consequence was, the blackbirds were diminished; but a kind of worm, which devoured their grass, and which the blackbirds used to feed on, increased prodigiously; then, finding their loss in grass much greater than their saving in corn, they wished again for their blackbirds.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

The electrical matter consists...

The electrical matter consists of particles extremely subtile, since it can permeate common matter, even the densest metals, with such ease and freedom as not to receive any perceptible resistance.
If anyone should doubt whether the electrical matter passes through the substance of bodies, or only over along their surfaces, a shock from an electrified large glass jar, taken through his own body, will probably convince him.
Electrical matter differs from common matter in this, that the parts of the latter mutu

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

What signifies Philosophy that...

What signifies Philosophy that does not apply to some Use? May we not learn from hence, that black Clothes are not so fit to wear in a hot Sunny Climate or Season, as white ones; because in such Cloaths the Body is more heated by the Sun when we walk abroad, and are at the same time heated by the Exercise, which double Heat is apt to bring on putrid dangerous Fevers? The Soldiers and Seamen, who must march and labour in the Sun, should in the East or West Indies have an Uniform of white?

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

Quacks are the greatest liars ...

Quacks are the greatest liars in the world except their patients.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

Look before, or you'll find yo...

Look before, or you'll find yourself behind.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

The great secret of succeeding...

The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends; never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can; to hearken to what is said and to answer to the purpose.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

Here Skugg lies snug As a bug ...

Here Skugg lies snug As a bug in a rug.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

Only a virtuous people are cap...

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.

Benjamin Franklin 1856 quotes

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