Quotes by Benjamin Franklin

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  • A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough.
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  • Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
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  • Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.
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  • Three people can keep a secret so long as two of them are dead.
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  • If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.
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  • A democracy is two wolves and a small lamb voting on what to have for dinner. Freedom under a constitutional republic is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.
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  • Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
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  • Lost time is never found again.
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  • He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
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  • Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade?
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  • Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
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  • A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.
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  • Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.
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  • If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
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  • Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.
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  • You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
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  • They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
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  • We'll either hang together or we'll hang separately.
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  • He that is good at making excuses is seldom good at anything else.
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  • Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
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  • Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
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  • Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
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  • All cats are gray in the dark.
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  • At 20 years of age the will reigns, at 30 the wit, at 40 the judgment.
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  • To be proud of virtue is to poison oneself with the antidote.
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