Benjamin Franklin Quotes
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Fish and visitors smell in three days.
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Follow your bliss. -Joseph Campbell Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail what you resolve.
[One Day]
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Fools need Advice most, but wise Men only are the better for it.
[Advice]
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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.
[Being]
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For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost; being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for want of care about a horseshoe nail.
[Carelessness]
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Fraud and deceit are ever in a hurry. - Take time for all things. - Great haste makes great waste.
[Haste]
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Frugality is a fair fortune; and habits of industry a good estate.
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Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.
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Games lubricate the body and the mind.
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Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience.
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Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
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Getting into debt, is getting into a tanglesome net.
[Borrowing]
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Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never well mended.
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God heals, and the doctor takes the fees.
[Health]
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God helps them that helps themselves.
[Action]
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God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.
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Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
[Begin]
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Half a truth is often a great lie.
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Handle your tools without mittens.
[Work]
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