There are
three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
~Benjamin
Franklin
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There are
three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
~Benjamin
Franklin
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There is
no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and
frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
~Benjamin
Franklin
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There
never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
~Benjamin
Franklin
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They who
can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve
neither liberty nor safety.
~Benjamin
Franklin
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Those
disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their
affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would
be of more use to them.
~Benjamin
Franklin
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Those that
won't be counseled can't be helped.
~Benjamin
Franklin
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Those who
govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the
trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best
public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced
by the occasion.
~Benjamin
Franklin
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Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow
never comes.
~Benjamin Franklin
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Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't
have brains enough to be honest.
~Benjamin Franklin
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Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from
needless ease.
~Benjamin Franklin
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Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.
~Benjamin Franklin
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We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect
to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man
among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for
conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.
~Benjamin Franklin
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Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
~Benjamin Franklin
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When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.
~Benjamin Franklin
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When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last
part moves, her last, the tongue.
~Benjamin Franklin
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When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their
difficulties by arbitration?
~Benjamin Franklin
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Where liberty is, there is my country.
~Benjamin Franklin
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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.
~Benjamin Franklin
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