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If you’d lose a troublesome visitor, lend him money.
Benjamin Franklin Poor Richard’s Almanack · 1732-1758

Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Most marriages don’t add two people together. They subtract one from the other.”

Ian Fleming · Diamonds Are Forever, 1956 · Primary source

“I think it’s the same with all relationships between a man and a woman. They can survive anything so long as some kind of basic humanity exists between the two people. When all kindness has gone, when one person obviously and sincerely doesn’t care if the other is alive or dead, then it’s just no good.”

Ian Fleming · For Your Eyes Only, 1960 · Primary source

“The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.”

Eleanor Roosevelt · The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt, 1961 · Primary source

Works

John T. Reed · 2003
Succeeding

A practical guide to choosing goals, careers and relationships that reflect individual strengths, alongside advice on money, learning and risk.

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