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Benjamin Franklin sayings
 
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Distrust and caution are the parents of security.
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Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
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Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.
Life and Death
Drive thy business or it will drive thee.
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Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
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Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.
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Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to get leisure.
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Energy and persistence conquer all things.
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Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.
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Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.
Success and FailureWork and Recreation
Fish and visitors smell in three days.
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Five thousand balloons, capable of raising two men each, could not cost more than five ships of the line; and where is the prince who can afford so to cover his country with troops for its defense as that 10,000 men descending from the clouds might not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief before a force could be brought together to repel them?
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For the want of a nail, the shoe was lose; for the want of a shoe the horse was lose; and for the want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for the want of care about a horseshoe nail.
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Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
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God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: "This is my country."
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God heals, and the doctor takes the fee.
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Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
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He is a fool that cannot conceal his wisdom.
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He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face
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He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
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