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

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

    Topics: Education

Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.

   

If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.

   

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

   

When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

   

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.

   

Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.

   

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

   

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

   

We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.

   

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

   

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

   

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

   

It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.

   

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

   

God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

   

I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

   

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

    Topics: Courage

God helps those who help themselves.

   

Fatigue is the best pillow.

   

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