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3 December 2020 Benjamin Franklin

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

3 December 2020 Benjamin Franklin

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

3 December 2020 Benjamin Franklin

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

3 December 2020 Benjamin Franklin

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

3 December 2020 Benjamin Franklin

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.

3 December 2020 Benjamin Franklin

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

3 December 2020 Benjamin Franklin

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.

3 December 2020 Benjamin Franklin

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

3 December 2020 Benjamin Franklin

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

3 December 2020 Benjamin Franklin

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

3 December 2020 Benjamin Franklin

Remember that credit is money.

3 December 2020 Benjamin Franklin

Wise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it.

3 December 2020 Benjamin Franklin

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

3 December 2020 Benjamin Franklin

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

3 December 2020 Benjamin Franklin

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

3 December 2020 Benjamin Franklin

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.

3 December 2020 Benjamin Franklin

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

3 December 2020 Benjamin Franklin

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

3 December 2020 Benjamin Franklin

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

3 December 2020 Benjamin Franklin

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

3 December 2020 Benjamin Franklin

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

3 December 2020 Benjamin Franklin

Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

3 December 2020 Benjamin Franklin

When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart’s the last part moves, her last, the tongue.

3 December 2020 Benjamin Franklin

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

3 December 2020 Benjamin Franklin

A place for everything, everything in its place.

3 December 2020 Benjamin Franklin

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

3 December 2020 Benjamin Franklin

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

3 December 2020 Benjamin Franklin

Time is money.

3 December 2020 Benjamin Franklin

Beauty and folly are old companions.

3 December 2020 Benjamin Franklin

Content makes poor men rich discontent makes rich men poor.

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