American - Politician | January 17, 1706 - April 17, 1790
Beauty and folly are old companions.
Benjamin Franklin
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I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.
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It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
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If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.
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The first mistake in public business is the going into it.
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Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.
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Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.
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From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books. Pleased with the 'Pilgrim's Progress,' my first collection was of John Bunyan's works in separate little volumes.
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Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
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Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.
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As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
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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.
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