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Poor Richard’s Almanack

By Benjamin Franklin · 1732-1758

An annual collection of practical information, observations and maxims on thrift, work, self-discipline, conduct and everyday life.

Form
Almanac
Genre
Advice literature
Date
1732-1758
Tags
ProverbsThriftIndustryPractical wisdomColonial America

Poor Richard’s Almanack was an annual publication written and printed by Benjamin Franklin under the pseudonym Richard Saunders. Issued from 1732 to 1758, it combined the practical material expected of an almanac, including calendars, weather predictions and astronomical information, with jokes, observations, proverbs and short pieces of advice. Franklin used the fictional voice of Poor Richard to comment on everyday behaviour in a direct and often humorous style.

The work is particularly associated with sayings about industry, thrift, prudence, self-reliance and the careful use of time and money. Many drew on existing proverbial traditions, which Franklin adapted and popularised for colonial American readers. The almanac became widely read and helped establish Franklin’s reputation as a writer and printer. Its best-known maxims were later brought together in The Way to Wealth, where they were presented as practical lessons on economic and personal conduct.

Quotes

“Beware of little expenses, a small leak will sink a great ship.”

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“Diligence is the mother of good luck.”

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“Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that’s the stuff life is made of.”

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“Experience keeps a dear school, yet fools will learn in no other.”

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“For age and want save while you may; no morning sun lasts a whole day.”

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“Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.”

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“Creditors have better memories than debtors.”

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“Diligence overcomes difficulties, sloth makes them.”

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“Doing an injury puts you below your enemy; revenging one makes you but even with him; forgiving, it sets you above him.”

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“Don’t think to hunt two hares with one dog.”

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“God helps them that help themselves.”

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“Great estates may venture more; little boats must keep near shore.”

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“He that falls in love with himself, will have no rivals.”

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“He that is rich need not live sparingly, and he that can live sparingly, need not be rich.”

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“Hope of gain lessens pain.”

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“If Jack’s in love, he’s no judge of Jill’s beauty.”

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“The muses love the morning.”

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“A fine genius in his own country, is like gold in the mine.”

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“A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.”

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“A full belly makes a dull brain.”

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“A good example is the best sermon.”

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“A lie stands on one leg, truth on two.”

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“A life of leisure, and a life of laziness, are two things.”

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“A light purse is a heavy curse.”

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“All things are easy to industry, all things difficult to sloth.”

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“All would live long, but none would be old.”

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“A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough.”

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“An egg today is better than a hen tomorrow.”

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“An empty bag cannot stand upright.”

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

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“An hundred thieves cannot strip one naked man, especially if his skin’s off.”

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“An innocent plowman is more worthy than a vicious prince.”

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“A plowman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.”

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“Approve not of him that commends all you say.”

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“As pride increases, fortune declines.”

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“As we must account for every idle word, so we must for every idle silence.”

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“At the working man’s house hunger looks in but dares not enter.”

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“Bad gains are truly losses.”

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“Be always ashamed to catch thyself idle.”

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“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors.”

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“Beauty and folly are old companions.”

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

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“Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.”

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“Buy what thou hast no need of; and e’er long thou shalt sell thy necessaries.”

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“Distrust and caution are the parents of security.”

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“Do good to thy friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him.”

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“Do not do that which you would not have known.”

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“Don’t misinform your doctor nor your lawyer.”

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“Don't throw stones at your neighbors, if your own windows are glass.”

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“Drink does not drown care, but waters it, and makes it grow faster.”

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“Drink water; put the money in your pocket, and leave the dry-bellyache in the punch-bowl.”

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“Drive thy business, or it will drive thee.”

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“Drunkenness, that worst of evils, makes some men fools, some beasts, some devils.”

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“Eat few suppers, and you’ll need few medicines.”

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“Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.”

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“Fish and visitors stink in three days.”

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“Fools multiply folly.”

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“For want of a nail the shoe is lost; for want of a shoe, the horse is lost; for want of a horse the rider is lost.”

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“Genius without education is like silver in the mine.”

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“Half the truth is often a great lie.”

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“Haste makes waste.”

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“Have you something to do tomorrow; do it today.”

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“Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.”

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“He’s a fool that makes his doctor his heir.”

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“He that builds before he counts the cost, acts foolishly; and he that counts before he builds, finds he did not count wisely.”

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“He that can have patience can have what he will.”

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“He that drinks fast, pays slow.”

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“He that lies down with dogs, shall rise up with fleas.”

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“He that never eats too much, will never be lazy.”

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“He that riseth late, must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business by night.”

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“Hold your council before dinner; the full belly hates thinking as well as acting.”

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“Honor thy father and mother, i.e., live so as to be an honor to them when they are dead.”

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“If you’d have a servant that you like, serve yourself.”

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“If you’d know the value of money, go and borrow some.”

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“If you’d lose a troublesome visitor, lend him money.”

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“If you have time don’t wait for time.”

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“If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher’s stone.”

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“If you would be loved, love and be lovable.”

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“If you would keep your secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend.”

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“Either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.”

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“I have never seen the philosopher’s stone that turns lead into gold, but I have known the pursuit of it turn a man’s gold into lead.”

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“Ill customs and bad advice are seldom forgotten.”

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“Industry pays debts, despair increases them.”

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“It is better to take many injuries, than to give one.”

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“It’s common for men to give pretended reasons instead of one real one.”

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“Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee.”

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

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“Late children, early orphans.”

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“Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.”

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“Laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him.”

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“Lend money to an enemy, and thou’lt gain him, to a friend and thou’lt lose him.”

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“Let every new year find you a better man.”

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“Lost time is never found again.”

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“Love, cough, and a smoke, can’t well be hid.”

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“Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.”

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“Love your neighbor; yet don’t pull down your hedge.”

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“Marry above thy match, and thou'lt get a master.”

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“Money and good manners make the gentleman.”

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“Necessity never made a good bargain.”

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“No gains without pains.”

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“No man ever was glorious who was not laborious.”

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“None preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing.”

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“Nothing so popular as goodness.”

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“Observe all men; thyself most.”

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“One good husband is worth two good wives; for the scarcer things are the more they’re valued.”

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“One today is worth two tomorrows.”

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“Pardoning the bad, is injuring the good.”

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“Patience in a market, is worth pounds in a year.”

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“Promises may get thee friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.”

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“Rather go to bed supperless, than run in debt for a breakfast.”

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“Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.”

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“Sleep without supping, and you'll rise without owing for it.”

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“Sloth (like rust) consumes faster than labor wears. The used key is always bright.”

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“Take counsel in wine, but resolve afterwards in water.”

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“Take this remark from Richard, poor and lame, whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.”

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“Tart words make no friends; a spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.”

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“The bell calls others to church, but itself never minds the sermon.”

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“The bird that sits, is easily shot.”

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“The busy man has few idle visitors; to the boiling pot the flies come not.”

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“The creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times.”

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“The eye of a master, will do more work than his hand.”

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“The golden age never was the present age.”

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“The honest man takes pains, and then enjoys pleasures; the knave takes pleasures, and then suffers pains.”

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“The noblest question in the world is, what good may I do in it?”

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“The proud hate pride—in others.”

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“There is neither honor nor gain got in dealing with a villian.”

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“There is no little enemy.”

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“There was never a good knife made of bad steel.”

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“The second vice is lying; the first is running in debt.”

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“The sting of a reproach is the truth of it.”

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“The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise.”

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“The wise man draws more advantage from his enemies, than the fool from his friends.”

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“Thou canst not joke an enemy into a friend; but thou may’st a friend into an enemy.”

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“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”

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“Time enough always proves little enough.”

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“Time is an herb that cures all diseases.”

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“Tim was so learned, that he could name a horse in nine languages. So ignorant, that he bought a cow to ride on.”

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“’Tis a shame that your family is an honor to you! You ought to be an honor to your family.”

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“’Tis easier to build two chimneys, than maintain one in fuel.”

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“’Tis easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.”

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“’Tis easy to see, hard to foresee.”

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“’'Tis easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it.”

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“To be intimate with a foolish friend, is like going to bed with a razor.”

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“Today is yesterday’s pupil.”

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“To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.”

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“To whom thy secret thou dost tell, to him thy freedom thou dost sell.”

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“Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that have not wit enough to be honest.”

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“Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough.”

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“Vice knows she’s ugly, so puts on her mask.”

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“Virtue and happiness are mother and daughter.”

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“Well done is better than well said.”

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“Well done is twice done.”

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“We may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.”

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“When the wine enters, out goes the truth.”

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“When you’re good to others, you are best to yourself.”

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“When you speak to a man, look on his eyes; when he speaks to thee, look on his mouth.”

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“Where there’s no law, there’s no bread.”

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

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“Wish not so much to live long as to live well.”

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“Without justice courage is weak.”

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“Words may show a man’s wit, but actions his meaning.”

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“Would you live with ease, do what you ought, and not what you please.”

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“You may be too cunning for one, but not for all.”

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“You may delay, but time will not.”

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“You will be careful, if you are wise; how you touch men’s religion, or credit, or eyes.”

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“A good lawyer, a bad neighbor.”

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Benjamin Franklin

187 quotes · 7 works · 374 themes · 934 tags
Quotes
“Beware of little expenses, a small leak will sink a great ship.”“Diligence is the mother of good luck.”“Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that’s the stuff life is made of.”
Works
Advice to a Young Tradesman 1748The Way to Wealth 1758The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 1771-1790
Themes
Developing potentialGrowth beyond familiar surroundingsFriendship tested by adversity
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