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By AnonymBenjamin Franklin
1) Temperance... drink not to elevation. (2) Silence... avoid trifling conversations. (3) Order: Let all your things have their places... (4) Resolution... perform without fail what you resolve. (5) Frugality... i.e. waste nothing. (6) Industry: Lose no time; be always employ'd... (7) Sincerity: Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently... (8) Justice: Wrong none by doing injuries... (9) Moderation: Avoid extremes; forbear resenting... (10) Cleanliness: Tolerate no uncleanliness in body... (11) Tranquility: Be not disturbed at trifles... (12) Chastity (13) Humility : Imitate Jesus.
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By AnonymBenjamin Franklin
A bargain is something you have to find a use for once you have bought it.
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By AnonymBenjamin Franklin
A Bible and a newspaper in every house, a good school in every district; all studied and appreciated as they merit; are the principal support of virtue, morality, and civil liberty.
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By AnonymBenjamin Franklin
A Brother may not be a Friend, but a Friend will always be a Brother.
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By AnonymBenjamin Franklin
Abuses of the freedom of speech ought to be repressed, but to whom are we to commit the power of doing it?
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By AnonymBenjamin Franklin
A change of fortune hurts a wise man no more than a change of the moon.
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By AnonymBenjamin Franklin
A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather.
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By AnonymBenjamin Franklin
A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can never be spent.
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By AnonymBenjamin Franklin
A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
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By AnonymBenjamin Franklin
Acquire Riches by Industry and Frugality.
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By AnonymBenjamin Franklin
A [desire] to abolish slavery prevails in North America, many of the Pennsylvanians have set their slaves at liberty, and [Virginia legislators] have petitioned the King for permission to make a law for preventing the importation of more [slaves] into that colony. This request, however, will probably not be granted, as their former laws of that kind have always been repealed.
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By AnonymBenjamin Franklin
Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
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By AnonymBenjamin Franklin
A dying man can do nothing easy.
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By AnonymBenjamin Franklin
A father's a treasure; a brother's a comfort; a friend is both.
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By AnonymBenjamin Franklin
A fat kitchin, a lean Will.
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By AnonymBenjamin Franklin
A fine genius in his own country is like gold in the mine.
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By AnonymBenjamin Franklin
A flatterer never seems absurd: The flatter'd always takes his word.
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By AnonymBenjamin Franklin
A friend in need is a friend indeed!
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By AnonymBenjamin Franklin
A full Belly makes a dull Brain: The Muses starve in a Cook's Shop.
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By AnonymBenjamin Franklin
After all, wedlock is the natural state of man. A bachelor is not a complete human being. He is like the odd half of a pair of scissors, which has not yet found its fellow, and therefore is not even half so useful as they might be together.
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By AnonymBenjamin Franklin
After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.
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By AnonymBenjamin Franklin
After getting the first hundred pounds, it is more easy to get the second.
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By AnonymBenjamin Franklin
A full Belly brings forth every Evil.
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By AnonymBenjamin Franklin
A full Belly is the Mother of all Evil.
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By AnonymBenjamin Franklin
A good conscience is a continual Christmas.
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By AnonymBenjamin Franklin
A good example is the best sermon.
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By AnonymBenjamin Franklin
A good spouse and health is a person's best wealth.
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By AnonymBenjamin Franklin
A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.
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By AnonymBenjamin Franklin
A greater Quantity of some things may be eaten than of others, some being of lighter Digestion than others.
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By AnonymBenjamin Franklin
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
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By AnonymBenjamin Franklin
A lady asked Dr. Franklin Well Doctor what have we got a republic or a monarchy - "A republic," replied the Doctor, "if you can keep it.
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By AnonymBenjamin Franklin
Alas, I know if I ever became truly humble, I would be proud of it.
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By AnonymBenjamin Franklin
A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
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By AnonymBenjamin Franklin
A lie stands on one leg, truth on two.
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By AnonymBenjamin Franklin
A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
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By AnonymBenjamin Franklin
A lighthouse is more useful than a church.
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By AnonymBenjamin Franklin
A light purse is a heavy curse.
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By AnonymBenjamin Franklin
A little House well fill'd, a little Field well till'd, and a little Wife well will'd, are great Riches.
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By AnonymBenjamin Franklin
A little Religion, and a little Honesty, goes a great way in Courts.
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By AnonymBenjamin Franklin
A little sturdiness when superiors are much in the wrong sometimes occasions consideration. And there is truth in the old saying that if you make yourself a sheep, the wolves will eat you.
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By AnonymBenjamin Franklin
All cats are gray in the dark.
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By AnonymBenjamin Franklin
All cats look gray in the dark.
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By AnonymBenjamin Franklin
All highly competent people continually search for ways to keep learning, growing, and improving. They do that by asking WHY. After all, the person who knows HOW will always have a job, but the person who knows WHY will always be the boss.
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By AnonymBenjamin Franklin
All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.
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By AnonymBenjamin Franklin
All the heavenly Bodies, the Stars and Planets, are regulated with the utmost Wisdom! And can we suppose less Care to be taken in the Order of the moral than in the natural System?
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By AnonymBenjamin Franklin
All things are cheap to the saving, dear to the wasteful
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By AnonymBenjamin Franklin
All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.
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By AnonymBenjamin Franklin
All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. In my opinion, there never was a good war or a bad peace. When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?
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By AnonymBenjamin Franklin
All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.
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By AnonymBenjamin Franklin
A lonely man on a rainy night who cannot read.
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