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Writing Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
- The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.
- When confronted with two courses of action I jot down on a piece of paper all the arguments in favor of each one, then on…
- Write with the learned, pronounce with the vulgar.
- The next thing most like living one's life over again seems to be a recollection of that life, and to make that recollection as durable…
- Flowers are the alphabet of angels, whereby they write on the hills and fields mysterious truths.
- That which resembles most living one's life over again, seems to be to recall all the circumstances of it; and, to render this remembrance more…
- Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
- Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.
- I have lived, Sir, a long time and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth -- that God governs…
- Write to Please Yourself. When You write to Please Others You end up Pleasing No one.
- Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes
- If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.
- If you would not be forgotton as soon as you are dead and rotten, Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
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