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Seldom Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
- Ill customs and bad advice are seldom forgotten.
- Content and Riches seldom meet together, Riches take thou, contentment I had rather.
- A temperate Diet frees from Diseases; such are seldom ill, but if they are surprised with Sickness, they bear it better, and recover sooner; for…
- Setting too good an Example is a Kind of slander seldom forgiven.
- He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
- Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
- Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
- Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
- 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.…
- Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a…
- It is remarkable that soldiers by profession, men truly and unquestionably brave, seldom advise war but in cases of extreme necessity.
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