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Ill Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
- Life is a kind of Chess, with struggle, competition, good and ill events.
- Hear not ill of a friend, nor speak any of an enemy.
- Ill customs and bad advice are seldom forgotten.
- He that speaks ill of the mare will buy her.
- He is not well bred, that cannot bear ill breeding in others
- Fear to do ill, and you need fear else.
- A temperate Diet frees from Diseases; such are seldom ill, but if they are surprised with Sickness, they bear it better, and recover sooner; for…
- Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.
- This gave me occasion to observe, that when Men are employ'd they are best contented. For on the Days they work'd they were good-natur'd and…
- It is ill-manners to silence a fool and cruelty to let him go on
- I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth; but rather by some means excuse the faults I…
- He is ill clothed that is bare of virtue.
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- Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself. — Honore de Balzac
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- There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill… — James Truslow Adams
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- It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree. — Charles Baudelaire
- The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain. — Henry Ward Beecher