Benjamin franklin Quote by Anne Fadiman

“Benjamin Franklin, however, wrote: To relieve the misfortunes of our fellow creatures is concurring with the Deity; it is godlike; but, if we provide…

— Ben Carson

“Way back in 1755 Benjamin Franklin wrote, “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor…

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

It would be easy to assume that the open letter is a symptom of the Internet age. Such is not the case. In 1774,…

— Roxane Gay

“One Half of the World does not know how the other Half lives,” Franklin once wrote. His sister is his other Half.”

— Jill Lepore

If time, so fleeting, must like humans die, let it be filled with good food and good talk, and then embalmed in the perfumes…

— M. F. K. Fisher

“When I die,' I said to my friend, 'I'm not going to be embalmed. I'm going to be dipped.' Milk chocolate or bittersweet was…

— Adrianne Marcus

“The obituary seemed like a washing of the body. It cleaned Steen up. The existence of the photographs, all the sordid aspects of the…

— Simon Brett

“The first impression one gets of Michael Deane is of a man constructed of wax, or perhaps prematurely embalmed. After all these years, it…

— Jess Walter

“A book is a dead man, a sort of mummy, embowelled and embalmed, but that once had flesh, and motion, and a boundless variety…

— William Godwin

“History that is presented only as ink-embalmed data is as a flower pressed in a book. Although the dry petals still hold all the…

— Rex Alan Smith

“Her forehead was unlined in the way of the recently embalmed and her smile resembled that of someone undergoing electroshock.”

— Dennis Lehane

Writing is eternal, For therein the dead heart liveth, the clay-cold tongue is eloquent, And the quick eye of the reader is cleared by…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald