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«To whom thy secret thou dost tell, To him thy freedom thou dost sell»
«Leisure is time for doing something useful; this leisure the diligent man will obtain, but the lazy man never»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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Leisure
| Keywords:
diligent, leisure, leisure time, obtain
«Be civil to all, sociable to many, familiar with few, friend to one, enemy to none»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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civil, familiar, familiar with, sociable
«I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last day we shall not be examined on what we thought but what we did.»
«Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy wealthy and wise.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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bed, early, get into bed, healthiest, healthy, rise, wealthier, wealthiest, wealthy, wealthy man
«One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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Good Wives, husband, scarcer, scarcest, valued, wives
«Man's tongue is soft, and bone doth lack; yet a stroke therewith may break a man's back.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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bone, boned, soft, stroke, stroked, therewith, The Strokes, tongue
«The doors of wisdom are never shut.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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Wisdom
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The Doors
«We do not stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing!»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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playing
«Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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anticipate, keep in, sunlight
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