American - Politician | January 17, 1706 - April 17, 1790
Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
Benjamin Franklin
GovernmentGentleLawsSeldomSevere
A good conscience is a continual Christmas.
GoodChristmasConscience
The discontented man finds no easy chair.
ManChairEasyDiscontentedFinds
Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
LoveMarriageWillWithoutWhere
It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
GreatTimeManMistakeThinkNever
Hunger is the best pickle.
BestHungerPickle
Never confuse motion with action.
ActionNeverMotionConfuse
He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.
BookWiserThanHeHimself
It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.
SickRichFeelWealthOnlyFully
I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.
MindFatOldBeingMuchGuess
He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.
WealthHimHeDoesPossess
Nine men in ten are would be suicides.
MenWouldTenNine
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