Benjamin Franklin Quotes
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At 20 years of age the will reigns, at 30 the wit, at 40 the judgment.
[Age]
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Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
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Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.
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Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
[Friendship]
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Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy.
[Health]
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Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least, you will, by such conduct, stand the best chance for such consequences.
[Advice]
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Beauty and folly are old companions.
[Beauty]
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Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
[Being]
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Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
[Economy]
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Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.
[Advice]
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Beware the hobby that eats.
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Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
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But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
[World]
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Buy what thou hast no need of, and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessaries.
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By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
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Carelessness does more harm than a want of knowledge.
[Carelessness]
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Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
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Christianity commands us to pass by injuries; policy, to let them pass by us.
[Injury]
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Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.
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Conversation warms the mind, enlivens the imagination, and is continually starting fresh game that is immediately pursued and taken, which would never have occurred in the driller intercourse of epistolary correspondence.
[Conversation]
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