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Famous Benjamin Franklin Quotes
“I fear the man who drinks water and so remembers this morning what the rest of us said last night”
“Most men die from the neck up at age twenty-five because they stop dreaming.”
“Fools need advice most, but wise men only are the better for it.”
“Wise men learn by others' harms, fools scarcely by their own.”
“Some men grow mad by studying much to know, But who grows mad by studying good to grow.”
“A Man of Knowledge like a rich Soil, feeds If not a world of Corn, a world of Weeds.”
“If Men are so wicked as we now see them with Religion what would they be if without it?”
“A dying man can do nothing easy.”
“When men are employed they are best contented.”
“A man is not completely born until he is dead.”
“The poor man must walk to get meat for his stomach, the rich man to get a stomach to his meat.”
“At the working man’s house, hunger looks in but dares not enter.”
“In success be moderate. Humility makes great men twice honourable.”
“Three things are men most likely to be cheated in, a horse, a wig, and a wife.”
“Presumption first blinds a man, then sets him a running.”