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“Benjamin Franklin said, “Those things that hurt, instruct.”

— M. Scott Peck

“People who have become great like Benjamin Franklin only became great because they learned how to invest time into improving whatever it is they…

— Sunday Adelaja

“In America, Benjamin Franklin famously risked his life by flying a kite in an electrical storm.”

— Bill Bryson

“Elsewhere in the journal, he transcribes the rules laid down by Benjamin Franklin as a prescription for happiness and success: “Eat not to dullness,”…

— Harold Schechter

By 1782 [John Adams] had come to feel for [Benjamin] Franklin "no other sentiments than Contempt or Abhorrence."

— Gordon S. Wood

“Benjamin Franklin put it at a time of similiar uncertainty: “those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve…

— Tom Fletcher

“Benjamin Franklin wrote that he would like to be embalmed in a cask of Madeira”

— Anne Fadiman

Pennsylvania, the state that has produced two great men: Benjamin Franklin of Massachusetts, and Albert Gallatin of Switzerland.

— John James Ingalls

“If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking." Benjamin Franklin”

— Susannah Gautier

“Benjamin Franklin put it well: “Anger is never without a reason, but seldom a good one.” There”

— Daniel Goleman

This country could use a president like Benjamin Franklin again.

— Michele Bachmann

“Homer, in the second book of the Iliad says with fine enthusiasm, "Give me masturbation or give me death." Caesar, in his Commentaries, says,…

— Mark Twain

“Hang together, or hang separately. Benjamin Franklin is a genius.”

— Renay Williams

“Sketches Einstein: His Life and Universe A Benjamin Franklin Reader Benjamin Franklin: An American Life Kissinger: A Biography The Wise Men: Six Friends and…

— Walter Isaacson

Benjamin Franklin said it best, 'Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.'

— Michael Muhney