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

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

    Topics: Anger

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.

   

Remember that credit is money.

   

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

   

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

   

To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.

   

Lost time is never found again.

   

Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.

   

He that can have patience can have what he will.

   

Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.

   

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.

   

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.

   

He that rises late must trot all day.

   

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

   

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

    Topics: Marriage

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

   

Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.

   

Time is money.

    Topics: Short

She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.

   

Where liberty is, there is my country.

   

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