Favorite Quotes Book: Benjamin Franklin

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Industry need not wish.

Nine men in ten are would be suicides.

Observe all men, thyself most.

Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.

Necessity never made a good bargain.

Mine is better than ours.

The first mistake in public business is the going into it.

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.

He that's secure is not safe.

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.

It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

If you desire many things, many things will seem few.

Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her.

When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.