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Benjamin Franklin

Read through the most famous quotes from Benjamin Franklin




Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.


— Benjamin Franklin


#begin #days #fish #guests #like

Applause waits on success.


— Benjamin Franklin


#success #waits

Beauty and folly are old companions.


— Benjamin Franklin


#companions #folly #old

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.


— Benjamin Franklin


#experience #fools #keeps #learn #other

Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.


— Benjamin Franklin


#comes #later #paid #wars #wartime

I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.


— Benjamin Franklin


#die #eating #few #hundred #hunger

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


#authors #beginning #correcting #edition #end

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.


— Benjamin Franklin


#go #know #money #some #try

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.


— Benjamin Franklin


#doing #lazy #leisure #never #obtain

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.


— Benjamin Franklin


#doing #everything #may #opinion #suspected






About Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin Quotes




Did you know about Benjamin Franklin?

He facilitated many civic organizations including a fire department and a university. From 1785 to 1788 he served as governor of Pennsylvania. His colorful life and legacy of scientific and political achievement and status as one of America's most influential Founding Fathers have seen Franklin honored on coinage and money; warships; the names of many towns counties educational institutions namesakes and companies; and more than two centuries after his death countless cultural.

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Franklin always proud of his working class roots became a successful newspaper editor and printer in Philadelphia the leading city in the colonies. He was also partners with William Goddard and Joseph Galloway the three of whom publiBenjamin Franklind the Pennsylvania Chronicle a newspaper that was known for its revolutionary sentiments and criticisms of the British monarchy in the American colonies.

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