American - Politician | January 17, 1706 - April 17, 1790
The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
Benjamin Franklin
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Applause waits on success.
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Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.
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Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.
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Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.
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Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.
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For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.
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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.
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Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
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Where there is a free government, and the people make their own laws by their representatives, I see no injustice in their obliging one another to take their own paper money.
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There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.
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Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
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