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Waste Quotes by Benjamin Franklin

8 Waste quotes by Benjamin Franklin

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Benjamin Franklin’s observations on waste still echo today, warning against excess while championing practical stewardship. His pithy maxims blend humor with hard‑headed advice, reminding modern readers that mindful consumption isn’t just an old virtue but a necessary habit for personal and societal well‑being.

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1) Temperance... drink not to elevation. (2) Silence... avoid trifling conversations. (3) Order: Let all your things have their places... (4) Resolution...…

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The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality: that…

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Do you love life? Then don't waste time, because time is life!

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Time is money'... Waste it now. Pay for it later!

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Without industry and frugality, nothing will do; with them, everything.

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Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

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Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.

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Pain wastes the Body, Pleasures the Understanding.

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“Give me 26 lead soldiers and I will conquer the world.”

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Flowers are the alphabet of angels, whereby they write on the hills and fields mysterious truths.

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In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

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By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration.

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Little leaks sink the ship.

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Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

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“But on the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it,…

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The good particular men may do separately, in relieving the sick, is small, compared with what they may do collectively.

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