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Benjamin Franklin

Read through the most famous quotes from Benjamin Franklin




Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?


— Benjamin Franklin


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I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.


— Benjamin Franklin


#fat #guess #i #mind #much

When in doubt, don't.


— Benjamin Franklin


#when in doubt

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.


— Benjamin Franklin


#genius #like #mine #silver #without

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.


— Benjamin Franklin


#both #danger #displays #having #his

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.


— Benjamin Franklin


#die #fasting #lives #upon #will

It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.


— Benjamin Franklin


#clothes #eye #fine #furniture #houses

She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.


— Benjamin Franklin


#everything #fine #laughs #say #she

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.


— Benjamin Franklin


#good #ill #know #man #speak

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






About Benjamin Franklin

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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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