Benjamin Franklin

(461 votes)   Clean your finger before you point at my spots.

Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

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(408 votes)   Clearly spoken, Mr. Fogg; you explain English by Greek.

Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

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(395 votes)   To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare.

Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

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(362 votes)   I think that a young state, like a young virgin, should modestly stay at home, and wait the application of suitors for an alliance with her; and not run about offering her amity to all the world; and hazarding their refusal. Our virgin is a jolly one; and tho at present not very rich, will in time be a great fortune, and where she has a favorable predisposition, it seems to me well worth cultivating.

Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

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(343 votes)   Lying rides upon debt's back.

Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

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(325 votes)   Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.

Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

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(318 votes)   That which resembles most living one's life over again, seems to be to recall all the circumstances of it; and, to render this remembrance more durable, to record them in writing.

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1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

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(298 votes)   To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.

Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

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(296 votes)   Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

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(279 votes)   There are no gains without pains.

Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

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(269 votes)   Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.

Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

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(262 votes)   Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.

Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

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(243 votes)   The best is the cheapest.

Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

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(229 votes)   Some punishment seems preparing for a people who are ungratefully abusing the best constitution and the best King any nation was ever blessed with, intent on nothing but luxury, licentiousness, power, places, pensions, and plunder; while the ministry, divided in their counsels, with little regard for each other, worried by perpetual oppositions, in continual apprehension of changes, intent on securing popularity in case they should lose favor, have for some years past had little time or inclination to attend to our small affairs, whose remoteness makes them appear even smaller.

Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

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(226 votes)   It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance.

Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

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