American - Politician | January 17, 1706 - April 17, 1790
He that can have patience can have what he will.
Benjamin Franklin
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In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.
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Where liberty is, there is my country.
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It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.
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Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
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Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
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Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.
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We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.
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Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
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If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.
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In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
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Industry need not wish.
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