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Firsts Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
- I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he first forms a…
- Courteous Reader, Astrology is one of the most ancient Sciences, held in high esteem of old, by the Wise and the Great. Formerly, no Prince…
- By playing at Chess then, we may learn: First: Foresight... Second: Circumspection... Third: Caution...And lastly, we learn by Chess the habit of not being discouraged…
- The second vice is lying, the first is running in debt.
- After getting the first hundred pounds, it is more easy to get the second.
- There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their…
- Rich widows are the only secondhand goods that sell at first-class prices.
- Presumption first blinds a man, then sets him a running.
- Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.
- Our friend and we were invited aboard on a party of pleasure, which is to last forever. His chair was ready first, and he has…
- By playing at Chess then, we may learn... First: Foresight. Second: Circumspection. Third: Caution.
- In every animal that walks upright, the deficiency of the Fluids that fill the Muscles appears first in the highest Part: The Face first grows…
- There seems to be three ways for a nation to acquire wealth: the first is by war...this is robbery; the second by commerce, which is…
- History will also give occasion to expatiate on the advantage of civil orders and constitutions; how men and their properties are protected by joining in…
- There is scarce a king in a hundred who would not, if he could, follow the example of Pharoah - get first all the people's…
- If we look back in history for the character of the present sects in Christianity, we shall find a few that have not in their…
- When you incline to have new clothes, look first well over the old ones, and see if you cannot shift with them another year, either…
- It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
- The first mistake in public business is the going into it.
- I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting…
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