Tag: Benjamin Franklin
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A penny saved is two pence clear.
Benjamin Franklin
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Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
Benjamin Franklin
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From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books. Pleased with the ‘Pilgrim’s Progress,’ my first collection was of John Bunyan’s works in separate little volumes.
Benjamin Franklin
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Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
Benjamin Franklin
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It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
Benjamin Franklin
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I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.
Benjamin Franklin
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Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.
Benjamin Franklin
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Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter.
Benjamin Franklin
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He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Benjamin Franklin
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He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.
Benjamin Franklin