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Words Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
- There's small Revenge in Words, but Words may be greatly revenged
- I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words, "Without vanity I may say," etc., but some vain thing immediately followed.
- If a man would reap praise, you must sow the seeds, gentle words and useful deeds.
- A word to the wise is enough, and many words won't fill a bushel.
- Here comes the orator with his flood of words and his drop of reason.
- Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
- Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.
- He that speaks much, is much mistaken.
- A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.
- The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality: that is, waste neither…
- The way to wealth depends on just two words, industry and frugality.
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