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Making Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
- Man is a tool-making animal
- I never knew a man who was good at making excuses who was good at anything else.
- Annual giving is the custom of making a gift-a-year to an institution in which one has faith...
- An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. When it comes to investing, nothing will pay off more than educating yourself. Do the necessary research,…
- A policy of life insurance is the cheapest and safest mode of making a certain provision for one's family.
- If any form of government is capable of making a nation happy, ours I think bids fair now for producing that effect. But after all…
- There remain a few people in NASA who are there to accomplish great things; but most of NASA now consists of the people who accomplished…
- He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
- I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to…
- Chess teaches foresight, by having to plan ahead; vigilance, by having to keep watch over the whole chess board; caution, by having to restrain ourselves…
- I wish it (Christianity) were more productive of good works ... I mean real good works ... not holy day keeping, sermon-hearing ... or making…
- Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the water…
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