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Benjamin Franklin has 1,221 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
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Who has deceived thee as oft as thyself.
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Unless the Stream of their Importation could be turned... they will soon so outnumber us, that all the advantages we have, will…
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Strangers are welcome because there is room enough for them all, and therefore the old Inhabitants are not jealous of them; the…
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[E]very Man who comes among us, and takes up a piece of Land, becomes a Citizen, and by our Constitution has a…
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It is very hard to dislike someone you have helped
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I have been apt to think that there has never been, nor ever will be, any such thing as a good war,…
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Tis a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for their liberty…
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Man will ultimately be governed by God or by tyrants.
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Work while it is called today, for you know not how much you may be hindered tomorrow. One today is worth two…
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It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be much less…
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It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part.
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The most venerable, clearly understood, enlightened, and reliable constant in the world is not only that we want to be happy, but…
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But neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. Just as man is free to attempt to…
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What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.
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True conformity to the dictates of nature requires reverence for the past and solicitude for the future. 'Nature' is not simply the…
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A field is the most just possession for men. For what nature requires it carefully bears: barley, oil, wine, figs, honey. Silver-plate…
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Change is the handmaiden Nature requires to do her miracles with.
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Virtue is the nursing-mother of all human pleasures, who, in rendering them just, renders them also pure and permanent; in moderating them,…
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In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
— Benjamin Franklin
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