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There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.: Franklin P. Adams (1881 - 1960)
There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.: Franklin P. Jones
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It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon. Which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.: Franklin P. Jones
The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it.: Franklin P. Jones
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.: Franklin P. Jones
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Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
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All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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It is fun to be in the same decade with you.: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), in a letter to Winston Churchill

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