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His Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
- An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.
- Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is…
- Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.
- He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.
- Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.
- If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.
- Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
- If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.
- When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.
- The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
- We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and…
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- I'm a father. It isn't just my life any more. I don't want my kid finding bottles in the house or seeing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
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- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery. — Matthew Arnold