Benjamin+Franklin

=Benjamin Franklin=

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 * Quotes**

1. A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.

2. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

3. Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.

4. Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

5. Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to get leisure.

6. Energy and persistence conquer all things.

7. Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

8. He that can have patience can have what he will.

9. He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

10. He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

11. If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.

12. If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

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

14. If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.

15. Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

16. Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.

17. Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

18. Who is wise? He that learns from every One. Who is powerful? He that governs his Passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

19. The eye of a master will do more work than both his hands **R**

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