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Benjamin Franklin
Early to bed...
Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
Source:...
If you would...
If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.
Source: From Journey in Word, ed....
A man must...
A man must have a good deal of vanity who believes, and a good deal of boldness who affirms, that all the doctrines he...
He that has...
He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have...
Clean your finger...
Clean your finger before you point at my spots.
Source: In Webster's Electronic...
Eat to live,...
Eat to live, and not live to eat.
Source: Poor Richard's Almanac.
-- Benjamin...
It is foolish...
It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance.
Source: In Correct...
A poet is...
A poet is the mere wastepaper of mankind.
Source: In Webster's Electronic...
He that is...
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Source: In...
Constant complaint is...
Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.
Men and melons...
Men and melons are hard to know.
Source: Poor Richard's Almanac.
-- Benjamin...
Our necessities never...
Our necessities never equal our wants.
Source: In Correct Quotes for DOS, WordStar...
Be slow in...
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
Source: In Webster's Electronic...
I saw few...
I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.
Source: In Correct Quotes...
Diligence is the...
Diligence is the mother of good luck, and God gives all things to industry.
Source:...
Eat not to...
Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.
Source: Autobiography, Ch. 5.
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At twenty years...
At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgement.
Here comes the...
Here comes the orator with his flood of words and his drop of reason.
Source: In...
Plough deep while...
Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
Source: In A Treasury of Great American...
Genius is nothing...
Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience.
Source: In Webster's...