"Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five."
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Benjamin Franklin
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Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
"A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned"
"Well done is better than well said."
"You will find the key to success under the alarm clock."
"Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn."
"Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody."
"The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality: that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality nothing will do, and with them everything."
"How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!"
"If you would be loved, love, and be loveable."
"Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise."
"The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read."
"In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria."
"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."
"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing."
"I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong."
"One today is worth two tomorrows."
"If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles."
"I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first."
"Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal."
"Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning."