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Benjamin Franklin

Read through the most famous quotes from Benjamin Franklin




If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.


— Benjamin Franklin


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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.


— Benjamin Franklin


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A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.


— 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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Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.


— Benjamin Franklin


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If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.


— Benjamin Franklin


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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.


— Benjamin Franklin


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Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.


— Benjamin Franklin


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Distrust and caution are the parents of security.


— Benjamin Franklin


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Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.


— 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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