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Than Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
- Well done is better than well said.
- A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
- Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.
- If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
- It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
- Creditors have better memories than debtors.
- There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
- It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
- The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
- He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.
- He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.
- Mine is better than ours.
- We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and…
- Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than…
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