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- If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are rotten,
either write things worth reading or do things worth the writing. - Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- The first mistake in public business is the going into it.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- You may delay, but time will not.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: "This is my country."
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), letter to David Hartley, December 4, 1789
- To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- In rivers and bad governments, the lightest things swim at the top.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- God heals, and the doctor takes the fee.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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