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Benjamin Franklin

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"I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old." Age 4.6 avg (11 votes)
"In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes." Government 4.6 avg (22 votes)
"You may delay, but time will not." Time 4.6 avg (27 votes)
"By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail." Success 4.6 avg (66 votes)
"Genius without education is like silver in the mine." Education, Genius 4.6 avg (20 votes)
"Diligence is the mother of good luck." Work 4.6 avg (5 votes)
"Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature." Freedom 4.6 avg (19 votes)
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch." Democracy 4.6 avg (93 votes)
"Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards." Marriage 4.6 avg (16 votes)
"Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship." Success 4.6 avg (18 votes)
"I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth -- that God Governs the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid?" God 4.5 avg (45 votes)
"A penny saved is a penny earned." Money 4.5 avg (84 votes)
"The sleeping fox catches no poultry." Work 4.5 avg (14 votes)
"To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girl friends." 4.5 avg (28 votes)
"For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise." Experience 4.5 avg (8 votes)
"He does not possess wealth; it possesses him." Money 4.5 avg (8 votes)
"He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees." War & Peace 4.5 avg (8 votes)
"If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him." Education 4.5 avg (10 votes)
"Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed." Laws 4.5 avg (4 votes)
"The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing." Acting 4.5 avg (2 votes)


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