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Experience keeps a dear school, yet fools will learn in no other.
Benjamin Franklin Poor Richard’s Almanack · 1732-1758

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“Bad gains are truly losses.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“Fools multiply folly.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“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.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

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

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

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

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today. It’s been that way all this year. It’s been that way so many times. All of this war is that way.”

Ernest Hemingway · For Whom the Bell Tolls, 1940 · Primary source

“All things truly wicked start from an innocence.”

Ernest Hemingway · A Moveable Feast, 1964 · Primary source

“If the government is cruel, the governor’s life is not safe.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Compensation, 1841 · Primary source

“If you see smoke, there must be fire.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Compensation, 1841 · Primary source

“Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Compensation, 1841 · Primary source

“He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.”

Leonardo da Vinci · The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, 1888 · Primary source

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