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Benjamin Franklin
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An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
--Benjamin Franklin
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
--Benjamin Franklin
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
--Benjamin Franklin
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
--Benjamin Franklin
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
--Benjamin Franklin
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
--Benjamin Franklin
Wish not so much to live long as to live well.
--Benjamin Franklin
Anyone who trades liberty for security deserves neither liberty nor security
--Benjamin Franklin
At 20 years of age the will reigns, at 30 the wit, at 40 the judgment.
--Benjamin Franklin
Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.
--Benjamin Franklin
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
--Benjamin Franklin
He that can have patience can have what he will.
--Benjamin Franklin
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write something worth reading or do things worth the writing.
--Benjamin Franklin
If you wouldst live long, live well, for folly and wickedness shorten life.
--Benjamin Franklin
Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.
--Benjamin Franklin
You may delay, but time will not.
--Benjamin Franklin
But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
--Benjamin Franklin
We must indeed all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.
--Benjamin Franklin
All would live long, but none would be old.
--Benjamin Franklin
Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.
--Benjamin Franklin
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
--Benjamin Franklin
Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones; the difference is only in the price.
--Benjamin Franklin
Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
--Benjamin Franklin
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
--Benjamin Franklin
Drive thy business or it will drive thee.
--Benjamin Franklin