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Useful Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
- A lighthouse is more useful than a church.
- What science can there be more noble, more excellent, more useful for men, more admirably high and demonstrative, than this of mathematics?
- Leisure is the time for doing something useful.
- Lose no time; be always employed in something useful.
- You will observe with concern how long a useful truth may be known, and exist, before it is generally received and practiced on.
- If a man would reap praise, you must sow the seeds, gentle words and useful deeds.
- I would advise you to read with a pen in your hand and enter in a little book short hints of what you feel that…
- After all, wedlock is the natural state of man. A bachelor is not a complete human being. He is like the odd half of a…
- Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.
- The purpose of money was to purchase one's freedom to pursue that which is useful and interesting.
- Leisure is time for doing something useful; this leisure the diligent man will obtain, but the lazy man never.
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