"Creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of……" — Benjamin Franklin
"Creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times."
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1,166 Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin has 1,166 quotes on this site.
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The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
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Who has deceived thee as oft as thyself.
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Unless the Stream of their Importation could be turned... they will soon so outnumber us, that all the advantages we…
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Strangers are welcome because there is room enough for them all, and therefore the old Inhabitants are not jealous of…
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[E]very Man who comes among us, and takes up a piece of Land, becomes a Citizen, and by our Constitution…
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It is very hard to dislike someone you have helped
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I have been apt to think that there has never been, nor ever will be, any such thing as a…
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Tis a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for…
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Man will ultimately be governed by God or by tyrants.
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Work while it is called today, for you know not how much you may be hindered tomorrow. One today is…
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It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be…
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It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part.
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More Creditors Quotes
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one of 63 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you will be saved.
— Charles Baudelaire
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Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions.
— Ambrose Bierce
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I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them:…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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People may live as much retired from the world as they please; but sooner or later, before they are aware,…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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We intend to conduct our business in a way that not only meets but exceeds the expectations of our customers,…
— Akira Mori
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I sympathize the first, the direct and single-minded attack [Red Revolution]. I believe it to have been necessary and inevitable…
— Stuart Chase
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In an honest service there is thin commons, low wages, and hard labor; in this, plenty and satiety, pleasure and…
— Bartholomew Roberts
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RE: GSEs like Freddie Mac & Fannie Mae: "creditors will continue to underprice the risk-taking of these financial institutions, overfund…
— Unknown Author
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Some of the craftiest scoundrels that ever walked this earth . . . will gravely jot down in diaries the…
— Charles Dickens
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There is a greatness in being generous, and there is only simple justice in satisfying creditors. Generosity is the part…
— Oliver Goldsmith
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It is a wise rule and should be fundamental in a government disposed to cherish its credit, and at the…
— Thomas Jefferson
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[T]he most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property. Those who hold…
— James Madison
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