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Fire Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
- The proof of gold is fire...
- Temperance puts wood on the fire, meal in the barrel, flour in the tub, money in the purse, credit in the country, contentment in the…
- Truth and sincerity have a certain distinguishing native lustre about them which cannot be perfectly counterfeited; they are like fire and flame, that cannot be…
- To expect people to be good, to be just, to be temperate, etc., without showing them how they should become so, seems like the ineffectual…
- And we daily in our experiments electrise bodies plus or minus, as we think proper. [These terms we may use till your Philosophers give us…
- Keep flax from fire, and youth from gaming.
- A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
- Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
- Three removes are as bad as a fire
- Keep flax from fire, youth from gaming
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