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Benjamin Franklin

Read through the most famous quotes from Benjamin Franklin




Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.


— Benjamin Franklin


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Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.


— Benjamin Franklin


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Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.


— Benjamin Franklin


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Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.


— Benjamin Franklin


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A place for everything, everything in its place.


— Benjamin Franklin


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A penny saved is a penny earned.


— Benjamin Franklin


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Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.


— Benjamin Franklin


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A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.


— Benjamin Franklin


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A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.


— Benjamin Franklin


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How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.


— 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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