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Improvement Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
- The things which hurt, instruct.
- What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been employed in works…
- Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
- An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
- Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
- It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
- In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
- 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…
- If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fix'd in your present…
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