Benjamin Franklin Quotes
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Little strokes fell great oaks.
[Time]
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Lost time is never found again.
[One Day]
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Love your enemies, for they will tell you your faults.
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Love your neighbor - but don't pull down your hedge.
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Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
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Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.
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Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.
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Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.
[Marriage]
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Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one. If it satisfies one want, it doubles and trebles that want another way. That was a true proverb of the wise man, rely upon it: "Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith."
[Money]
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Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.
[Ingratitude]
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Necessity never made a good bargain.
[Necessity]
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Never confuse motion with action.
[Action]
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Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
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Nine men in ten are would be suicides.
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No nation was ever ruined by trade.
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None preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing.
[Example]
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Nothing is more fatal to health than an overcare of it.
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Observe all men, thyself most.
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