American - Politician | January 17, 1706 - April 17, 1790
The doors of wisdom are never shut.
Benjamin Franklin
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Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.
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Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
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Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
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If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
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Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.
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Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
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Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
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A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
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A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.
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No nation was ever ruined by trade.
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I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.
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