"He that lives upon hope will die fasting."
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Benjamin Franklin
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Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
"If you would be loved, love, and be loveable."
"How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!"
"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."
"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."
"Games lubricate the body and mind."
"If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles."
"Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing."
"Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning."
"You will find the key to success under the alarm clock."
"Well done is better than well said."
"Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five."
"Hide not your talents, they for use were made,What's a sundial in the shade?"
"The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance."
"A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned"
"I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong."
"If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed."
"Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances."
"A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned"