"Pollio, who values nothing that's within, Buys books……" — Benjamin Franklin
"Pollio, who values nothing that's within, Buys books as men hunt Beavers, -- for their Skin."
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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 Beavers Quotes
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one of 62 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Canada was built on dead beavers.
— Margaret Atwood
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To be selected was an honor, and in respect of the family member chosen to run, families held feasts and…
— Dennis Banks
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But I never get attracted to fans cause the eager beaver could be the collapse of a dam
— Drake
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Beavers build houses; but they build them in nowise differently, or better now, than they did, five thousand years ago.…
— Abraham Lincoln
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When I was a kid and the other kids were home watching "Leave it to Beaver," my father and step-mother…
— Oprah Winfrey
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Any business or industry that pays equal rewards to its goof-off and its eager beavers sooner or later will find…
— Unknown Author
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Minks are mean little critters. Vicous, horrible little animals who eat their own. They're not beavers. I wouldn't wear beavers.…
— Valerie Perrine
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A beaver does not, as legend would have it, know which direction the tree will fall when he cuts it,…
— Ann Zwinger
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Pines a thousand years old. Every year they must go farther for them: they recede, like beavers and Indians, before…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Contrary to popular opinion, 'Leave it to Beaver' was not a documentary.
— Stephanie Coontz
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Manchester City are defending like beavers
— Chris Kamara
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A child's hope is that your father comes riding in on that white stallion and saves them. You can't make…
— Jake Roberts
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