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What can laws do without morals? - [Morality] Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. - [Anger] Where liberty dwells, there is my country. - [Liberty] Who has deceived thee so often as thyself? - [Self-deceit] Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. - [Wealth] Words may show a man's wit, but actions his meaning. - [Words] You may delay, but time will not. - [Procrastination] Notwithstanding my experiments with electricity the thunderbolt continues to fall under our noses and beards; and as for the tyrant, there are a million of us still engaged at snatching away his sceptre. - Comment on Turgot's inscription, in a letter to Felix Nogaret [Electricity] The body of Benjamin Franklin, Printer (Like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out and stript of its lettering and gilding), Lies here, food for worms; But the work shall not be lost, for it will (as he believed) appear once more in a new and more elegant edition, revised and corrected by the author. - Epitaph on Himself [Epitaphs] A dying man can do nothing easy. - Last Words [Death] But in this world nothing is sure but death and taxes. [Fr., Mais dons ce monde, il n'y a rien d'assure que le mort et les impots.] - Letter to M. Leroy [World] There never was a good war or a bad peace. - Letter to Quincy [War] Here you would know, and enjoy, what prosperity will way of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with a thousand years. - Letter to Washington [Washington, George] You and I were long friends; you are now my enemy, and I am yours. - Letter to William Strahan [Enemies] Were the offer made true, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask should be the privilege of an author, to correct, in a second edition, certain errors of the first. - Life [Life] A penny saved is two pence clear, A pin a day's a groat a year. - Necessary Hints to those that would be Rich [Economy] The pen is mightier than the sword. - Oration [Pen : Proverbs] An undutiful Daughter will prove an unmanageable Wife. - Poor Richard [Wives] Are women books? says Hodge, then would mine were An Almanack, to change her every year. - Poor Richard [Women] Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. - Poor Richard [Life] Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them. - Poor Richard [Eating : Proverbs] Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily crack'd and never well mended. - Poor Richard [Proverbs] Great Estates may venture more. Little Boats must keep near Shore. - Poor Richard [Prudence] If a man could half his wishes he would double his Troubles. - Poor Richard [Wishes] If you would be loved, love and be lovable. - Poor Richard [Love] Displaying page 10 of 11 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 [10] 11
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