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Benjamin Franklin

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experience keeps a dear school but fools will learn in no other


— Benjamin Franklin


#life-lessons #painful #experience

Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.


— Benjamin Franklin


#inspirational

I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives.


— Benjamin Franklin


#marriage #marriage

there was great difference between persons and, discretion did not always accompany years nor was youth always with out it


— Benjamin Franklin


#life #life

A man being sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps thro' fear of being thought to have but little.


— Benjamin Franklin


#money

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.


— Benjamin Franklin


#enough #fools #honest #practice #to be honest

After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.


— Benjamin Franklin


#men

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


— Benjamin Franklin


#inspirational

People willing to trade their freedom for security deserve neither and will lose both.


— Benjamin Franklin


#freedom

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.


— Benjamin Franklin


#business






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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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