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Quotes of Benjamin Franklin
Complaining about taxes is nothing new for Americans. Indeed, in a letter he wrote on November 13, 1789, Benjamin Franklin lamented to a friend, "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."
"Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults."
"Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow."
"Wise men don't need advise. Fools don't take it."
"Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame."
A lonesome man on a rainy day who does not know how to read."
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) on being asked what condition of man he considered the most pitiable
I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong."
Ben Franklin once wrote, "I would rather have it said 'he lived usefully' than 'he died rich.'"
More than just words, it was the way Franklin lived his life. One example of his useful nature was the invention of the Franklin Stove. Instead of patenting it, and keeping it to himself, Ben Franklin decided to share the invention with the world.
"They that give up the essential liberty to obtain a little safety deserve neither liberty or safety "
"Of all the sad words of tongue and pen the saddest are these, 'it might have been'."
"Necessity never made a good bargain."
"Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him."
"I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind. If he first forms a good plan, and, cutting off all amusements or other employments that would divert his attention, make the execution of that same plan his sole study and business… The way to wealth . . . depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality; that is, waste neither time nor money."
"Well done is better is than well said."
"The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself."
"Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of".
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