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Benjamin Franklin
January 17, 1706 - April 17, 1790
Nationality: American
Category: Politician
Subcategory: American Politician

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

   

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

   

All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.

   

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

   

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

    Topics: Anger

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

   

Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.

   

And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

   

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

   

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

   

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

   

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

   

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.

   

If you desire many things, many things will seem few.

   

You may delay, but time will not.

   

A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.

   

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

   

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

   

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

   

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

   

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