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Often Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
- Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.
- Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves; but I give it fair quarter, wherever I meet with it, being…
- I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; like those…
- As often as we do good, we sacrifice.
- Those who laugh often never grow old.
- Half a truth is often a great lie.
- He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.
- Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?
- In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down,…
- Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose.
- All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often…
- The human brain is like a railroad freight car -- guaranteed to have a certain capacity but often running empty.
- Half the truth is often a great lie.
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