Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Benjamin Franklin

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

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.
Benjamin Franklin

A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.
Benjamin Franklin

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
Benjamin Franklin

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
Benjamin Franklin

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
Benjamin Franklin

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
Benjamin Franklin

A penny saved is a penny earned.
Benjamin Franklin

A place for everything, everything in its place.
Benjamin Franklin

A small leak can sink a great ship.
Benjamin Franklin

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
Benjamin Franklin

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
Benjamin Franklin

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

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.
Benjamin Franklin

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.
Benjamin Franklin

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin

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

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

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.
Benjamin Franklin

Applause waits on success.
Benjamin Franklin

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Biography
Type: Politician
Nationality: American
Born: January 17, 1706
Died: April 17, 1790

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