"Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound……" — Benjamin Franklin

"Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man."

— Benjamin Franklin

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1,166 Quotes by Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin has 1,166 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
Who has deceived thee as oft as thyself.
Unless the Stream of their Importation could be turned... they will soon so outnumber us, that all the advantages we…
Strangers are welcome because there is room enough for them all, and therefore the old Inhabitants are not jealous of…
[E]very Man who comes among us, and takes up a piece of Land, becomes a Citizen, and by our Constitution…
It is very hard to dislike someone you have helped
I have been apt to think that there has never been, nor ever will be, any such thing as a…
Tis a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for…
Man will ultimately be governed by God or by tyrants.
Work while it is called today, for you know not how much you may be hindered tomorrow. One today is…
It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be…
It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part.

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High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
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Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to… — Paul Auster
I'm not a comic book guy at all. — Darren Aronofsky
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is… — Isaac Asimov
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except… — David Attenborough
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the… — Margaret Atwood
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood

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