"Remember, that six pounds a year is but…" — Benjamin Franklin

"Remember, that six pounds a year is but a groat a day."

— 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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The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can… — Hannah Arendt
The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be… — Hannah Arendt
I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going… — Alexis Arguello
For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short… — Aristotle
For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to… — Aristotle
When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you… — Julian Assange
We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People… — Paul Auster
I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less… — Paul Auster
People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong
Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted. — Billie Joe Armstrong
Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day. — Karen Armstrong

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