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Occasions Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
- Among the numerous luxuries of the table...coffee may be considered as one of the most valuable. It excites cheerfulness without intoxication; and the pleasing flow…
- The game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement; several very valuable qualities of the mind are to be acquired and strengthened by it,…
- Hereafter, if you should observe an occasion to give your officers and friends a little more praise than is their due, and confess more fault…
- Remember this saying, The good payer is lord of another man's purse. He that is known to pay punctually and exactly to the time he…
- The madness of mobs or the insolence of soldiers, or both, when too near to each other, occasion some mischief.
- History will also give occasion to expatiate on the advantage of civil orders and constitutions; how men and their properties are protected by joining in…
- A little sturdiness when superiors are much in the wrong sometimes occasions consideration. And there is truth in the old saying that if you make…
- Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects.…
- 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…
- 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…
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