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"Lost time is never found again."
Benjamin Franklin / Poor Richard's Almanack
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"Well done is better than well said."
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"Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise."
Benjamin Franklin / Poor Richard's Almanack
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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Benjamin Franklin / Historical Review of Pennsylvania.
Historical Review of Pennsylvania.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"God helps them that help themselves."
Benjamin Franklin / Maxims prefixed to Poor Richard's Almanac, 1757.
Maxims prefixed to Poor Richard's Almanac, 1757.
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"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of."
Benjamin Franklin / Maxims prefixed to Poor Richard's Almanac, 1757.
Maxims prefixed to Poor Richard's Almanac, 1757.
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"Plough deep while sluggards sleep."
Benjamin Franklin / Maxims prefixed to Poor Richard's Almanac, 1757.
Maxims prefixed to Poor Richard's Almanac, 1757.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Never leave that till to-morrow which you can do to-day."
Benjamin Franklin / Maxims prefixed to Poor Richard's Almanac, 1757.
Maxims prefixed to Poor Richard's Almanac, 1757.
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"Three removes are as bad as a fire."
Benjamin Franklin / Maxims prefixed to Poor Richard's Almanac, 1757.
Maxims prefixed to Poor Richard's Almanac, 1757.
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"Little strokes fell great oaks."
Benjamin Franklin / Maxims prefixed to Poor Richard's Almanac, 1757.
Maxims prefixed to Poor Richard's Almanac, 1757.
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"A little neglect may breed mischief: for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost."
Benjamin Franklin / Maxims prefixed to Poor Richard's Almanac, 1757.
Maxims prefixed to Poor Richard's Almanac, 1757.
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"He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing."
Benjamin Franklin / Maxims prefixed to Poor Richard's Almanac, 1757.
Maxims prefixed to Poor Richard's Almanac, 1757.
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"A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone."
Benjamin Franklin / Maxims prefixed to Poor Richard's Almanac, 1757.
Maxims prefixed to Poor Richard's Almanac, 1757.
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"Vessels large may venture more, But little boats should keep near shore."
Benjamin Franklin / Maxims prefixed to Poor Richard's Almanac, 1757.
Maxims prefixed to Poor Richard's Almanac, 1757.
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"It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright."
Benjamin Franklin / Maxims prefixed to Poor Richard's Almanac, 1757.
Maxims prefixed to Poor Richard's Almanac, 1757.
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"Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other."
Benjamin Franklin / Maxims prefixed to Poor Richard's Almanac, 1757.
Maxims prefixed to Poor Richard's Almanac, 1757.
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"We are a kind of posterity in respect to them."
Benjamin Franklin / Letter to William Strahan, 1745.
Letter to William Strahan, 1745.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Remember that time is money."
Benjamin Franklin / Advice to a Young Tradesman, 1748.
Advice to a Young Tradesman, 1748.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter."
Benjamin Franklin / Letter on the Stamp Act, July 1, 1765.
Letter on the Stamp Act, July 1, 1765.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Here Skugg lies snug As a bug in a rug."
Benjamin Franklin / Letter to Miss Georgiana Shipley, September, 1772.
Letter to Miss Georgiana Shipley, September, 1772.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"There never was a good war or a bad peace."
Benjamin Franklin / Letter to Josiah Quincy, Sept. 11, 1773.
Letter to Josiah Quincy, Sept. 11, 1773.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"You and I were long friends: you are now my enemy, and I am yours."
Benjamin Franklin / Letter to William Strahan, July 5, 1775.
Letter to William Strahan, July 5, 1775.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately."
Benjamin Franklin / At the signing of the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776.
At the signing of the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776.
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"He has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle."
Benjamin Franklin / The Whistle. November, 1779.
The Whistle. November, 1779.
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"Here you would know and enjoy what posterity will say of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with a thousand years."
Benjamin Franklin / Letter to Washington, March 5, 1780.
Letter to Washington, March 5, 1780.
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"Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes."
Benjamin Franklin / Letter to M. Leroy, 1789.
Letter to M. Leroy, 1789.
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"Benjamin Franklin did a great many notable things for his country, and made her young name to be honored in many lands as the mother of such a son. It is not the idea of this memoir to ignore that or cover it up. No; the simple idea of it is to snub those pretentious maxims of his, which he worked up with a great show of originality out of truisms that had become wearisome platitudes as early as the dispersion from Babel."
Mark Twain / "The Late Benjamin Franklin", The Galaxy, Vol. 10, No. 1, July 1870Anthologized in [http://books.google.com/books?id=5LcIAAAAQAAJ Mark Twain's Sketches, New and Old (1875)
"The Late Benjamin Franklin", The Galaxy, Vol. 10, No. 1, July 1870Anthologized in [http://books.google.com/books?id=5LcIAAAAQAAJ Mark Twain's Sketches, New and Old (1875)
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