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Benjamin Franklin Quotes

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
Benjamin Franklin
Home, Food, Mind
Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
Benjamin Franklin
After, Days, Fish
Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
Benjamin Franklin
Enough, Honest, Practice
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
Benjamin Franklin
Courage, Enough, Few
Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.
Benjamin Franklin
God, Against, Obedience
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
Benjamin Franklin
Anger, Whatever, Shame
All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.
Benjamin Franklin
Three, Move, Divided
It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
Benjamin Franklin
Good, Bad, Lose
Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
Benjamin Franklin
Work, Live, Tomorrow
Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
Benjamin Franklin
Men, Wise, Advice
He that can have patience can have what he will.
Benjamin Franklin
Patience
A place for everything, everything in its place.
Benjamin Franklin
Inspirational, Everything, Place
A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
Benjamin Franklin
Life, Two, Enough
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
Benjamin Franklin
Learning, Learn, Ignorant
There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.
Benjamin Franklin
Happy, May, Two
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
Benjamin Franklin
Success, Words, Progress
Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75.
Benjamin Franklin
Die, Until, Buried
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
Benjamin Franklin
Small, Makes, Himself
Half a truth is often a great lie.
Benjamin Franklin
Truth, Great, Lie
A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
Benjamin Franklin
Learned, Ignorant, Greater
Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.
Benjamin Franklin
Peace, May, High
Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.
Benjamin Franklin
Small, Return, Greater
There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
Benjamin Franklin
Wisdom, Money, Wife
Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
Benjamin Franklin
Finance, Good, Bad
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
Benjamin Franklin
Energy, Conquer

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Biography

Nationality: American
Born: January 17, 1706
Died: April 17, 1790

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