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Wise Men Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
- Fools need advice most, but wise men only are the better for it.
- Wise men learn by others' harms, fools scarcely by their own.
- The good Education of Youth has been esteemed by wise Men in all Ages, as the surest Foundation of the Happiness both of private Families…
- That wise Men have in all Ages thought Government necessary for the Good of Mankind; and, that wise Governments have always thought Religion necessary for…
- Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
- Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.
- I wish it (Christianity) were more productive of good works ... I mean real good works ... not holy day keeping, sermon-hearing ... or making…
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- What all the wise men promised has not happened and what all the dammed fools said would happen has come to pass. — William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
- Think not silence the wisdom of fools; but, if rightly timed, the honor of wise men, who have not the infirmity, but… — Thomas Browne
- Fools need advice most, but wise men only are the better for it. — Benjamin Franklin
- We must be careful how we flatter fools too little, or wise men too much, for the flatterer must act the very… — Charles Caleb Colton
- Wise men learn by others' harms, fools scarcely by their own. — Benjamin Franklin
- There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom. — Nicolas Chamfort
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