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«A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can scarce ever be spent.»
«All things are easy to industry, all things are difficult to sloth.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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sloth
«A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
blockhead, blockheads
«Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Health
| Keywords:
temperate
«It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Goodness,
Self-esteem
| Keywords:
pronounce
«God works wonders now and then; behold a lawyer, an honest man.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
God
«Don't throw stones at your neighbours, if your own windows are glass.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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Neighbours
«Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
expenses, leak, small ship
«The best investment is in the tools of one's own trade.»
«And where is the Prince who can afford to so cover his country with troops for its defense, as that ten thousand men descending from the clouds, might not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief, before a force could be brought together to repel them?»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
defense force, repel, repelled, The Prince, troops
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