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If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.
Benjamin Franklin
Him, Head, Purse
Applause waits on success.
Benjamin Franklin
Success, Applause, Waits
Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.
Benjamin Franklin
Others, Eat, Please
If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
Benjamin Franklin
Money, Try, Value
He that rises late must trot all day.
Benjamin Franklin
Late, Rises
Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.
Benjamin Franklin
Best, Business, Wisdom
Games lubricate the body and the mind.
Benjamin Franklin
Mind, Body, Games
The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.
Benjamin Franklin
Faith, Reason, Eye
I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.
Benjamin Franklin
Life, End, Same
Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.
Benjamin Franklin
Call, Manners, Savages
There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
Benjamin Franklin
Good, Government, Fall
And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.
Benjamin Franklin
Honest, Whether, Whose
Creditors have better memories than debtors.
Benjamin Franklin
Memories, Debtors, Creditors
Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.
Benjamin Franklin
Time, Good, Year
If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.
Benjamin Franklin
Wishes, Half, Troubles
Never confuse motion with action.
Benjamin Franklin
Action, Confuse, Motion
Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.
Benjamin Franklin
Long, Sell, Thou
Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
Benjamin Franklin
Himself, Pleasure, Thinks
He that won't be counseled can't be helped.
Benjamin Franklin
Won, Helped, Counseled
Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
Benjamin Franklin
Government, Laws, Gentle
Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
Benjamin Franklin
Wife, Fire, Put
There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
Benjamin Franklin
Time, Great, Same
Hunger is the best pickle.
Benjamin Franklin
Best, Hunger, Pickle
If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
Benjamin Franklin
Time, Greatest, Precious
If you desire many things, many things will seem few.
Benjamin Franklin
Few, Desire, Seem

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Biography

Nationality: American
Born: January 17, 1706
Died: April 17, 1790

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