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Benjamin Franklin

Read through the most famous quotes from Benjamin Franklin




Nine men in ten are would be suicides.


— Benjamin Franklin


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The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.


— Benjamin Franklin


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The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.


— Benjamin Franklin


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The discontented man finds no easy chair.


— Benjamin Franklin


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The first mistake in public business is the going into it.


— Benjamin Franklin


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Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.


— Benjamin Franklin


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Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.


— Benjamin Franklin


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Industry need not wish.


— Benjamin Franklin


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Mine is better than ours.


— Benjamin Franklin


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Necessity never made a good bargain.


— Benjamin Franklin


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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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