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Benjamin Franklin
b. 1706; d. 1790
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# · Not So Good (171 ratings) · submitted 1997 ·
Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.
# · Not So Good (50 ratings) · submitted 1997
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.
# · Not So Good (20 ratings) · submitted 1997
Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.
Benjamin Franklin, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
# · Not So Good (24 ratings) · submitted 1997
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
# · Not So Good (22 ratings) · submitted 1997
If time be of all things most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality, since lost time is never found again; and what we call time enough always proves little enough.
# · Not So Good (157 ratings) · submitted 1997
In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes.
# · Not So Good (69 ratings) · submitted 1997
Life's tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.
# · Not So Good (30 ratings) · submitted 1997
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
# · Not So Good (147 ratings) · submitted 1997
Well done is better than well said.
# · Not So Good (23 ratings) · submitted 1997
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
# · Not So Good (22 ratings) · submitted 1997
Wise men don't need advice; fools don't take it.
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