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Longer Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
- I have lived a long time, sir, and the longer I live the more convincing proofs I see of this truth - that God governs…
- But they have two other Rights; those of sitting when they please, and as long as they please, in which methinks they have the advantage…
- The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at five in the morning, or at…
- Our whole life is but a greater and longer childhood.
- The longer I live the more convinced I become that God governs in the affairs of men. And have we now forgotten that powerful friend?…
- No longer virtuous no longer free; is a Maxim as true with regard to a private Person as a Common-wealth.
- Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal.
- I have lived, Sir, a long time and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth -- that God governs…
- In the beginning of the contest with Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayers in this room for Divine protection," he…
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- No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world… — Isaac Asimov
- That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it… — Mary Astell
- To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it. — Saint Augustine
- To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer. — Gaston Bachelard
- I then realized my appearance was a bit odd. My right leg was no longer with me. It had caught somewhere in… — Douglas Bader
- You have to kind of be invisible when you photograph children, so you use a longer lens. — David Bailey
- I do love shoes that make my legs longer. I have the upper body of someone who's 5ft 8in, so high heels… — Amy Adams
- Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it. — Russell Baker
- American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it. — James A. Baldwin
- Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of the defense… — Stanley Baldwin
- If a scene is longer than three pages, it better be for a good reason. — Alan Ball
- Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be… — J. G. Ballard