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Benjamin Franklin

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"A good conscience is a continual Christmas." Christmas, Morality 4.4 avg (17 votes)
"To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions." Success 4.3 avg (15 votes)
"If you would be loved, love and be lovable." Love 4.3 avg (19 votes)
"I am a strong believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it." Luck, Work 4.3 avg (26 votes)
"As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence." Talking 4.3 avg (7 votes)
"Games lubricate the body and the mind." Sports 4.3 avg (7 votes)
"I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it." God 4.3 avg (11 votes)
"The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse." Leadership 4.3 avg (11 votes)
"Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God." Politics 4.2 avg (21 votes)
"He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money." Money 4.2 avg (9 votes)
"It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." Virtue 4.2 avg (9 votes)
"He that lives upon hope will die fasting." Hope 4.2 avg (19 votes)
"To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible." Success 4.2 avg (6 votes)
"A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle." Virtue 4.2 avg (6 votes)
"I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand." Food 4.2 avg (6 votes)
"It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them." Miscellaneous 4.2 avg (6 votes)
"He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals." Pride 4.2 avg (25 votes)
"Even peace may be purchased at too high a price." War & Peace 4.1 avg (15 votes)
"'Tis a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for their liberty in defending our own." Liberty 4.1 avg (20 votes)
"Man will ultimately be governed by God or by tyrants." God 4.1 avg (22 votes)


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