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- Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- We made a solemn vow not to take any job outside of show business. We borrowed money from parents and friends, rather than take that lethal job waiting tables. This forced us to take any job offered to us. Anything. We once did a show in the middle of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia as part of a fashion show on a hot July night while all around our stage, a race-riot was fully underway. That's how serious we were about our vow.
- Raymond Joseph Teller, Fury Letter written to Brian Brushwood, 10-18-93
- Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- Creditors have better memories than debtors.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), Poor Richard’s Almanac (1758)
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