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Benjamin Franklin

Read through the most famous quotes from Benjamin Franklin




Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.


— Benjamin Franklin


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Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.


— Benjamin Franklin


#happiness #happy #made #man #more

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.


— Benjamin Franklin


#better man #every #find #man #neighbors

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.


— Benjamin Franklin


#failure #fear #know #mistakes #out

Lost time is never found again.


— Benjamin Franklin


#again #found #lost #never

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.


— Benjamin Franklin


#every #get #grab #i #look

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.


— Benjamin Franklin


#conscience #continual #good

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.


— Benjamin Franklin


#ease #knows #live #must #sees

All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.


— Benjamin Franklin


#divided #immovable #into #mankind #movable

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


— 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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