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«Mine is better than ours.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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Vanity
«Lost time is never found again; and what we call time enough, always proves little enough.»
«Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves; but I give it fair quarter, wherever I meet with it, being persuaded that it is often productive of good to the possessor, and to others who are within his sphere of act»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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persuaded, sphere, vanity fair
«Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones, the difference is only in the price.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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Old Boys, plaything, playthings
«Now I've a sheep and a cow, every body bids me good morrow.»
«The ancients tell us what is best; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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fittest, moderns
«The magistrate should obey the laws, the people should obey the magistrate.»
«The nearest way to come at glory, is to do that for conscience which we do for glory.»
«What signifies knowing the names, if you know not the nature of things.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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The Nature of Things
«At the working man's house hunger looks in but dares not enter»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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working man
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