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You Must Not, When You Have Gained A Victory, Use Any Triumphing Or Insulting Expressions, Nor Show Too Much Of The Pleasure You Feel; But Endeavour To Console Your Adversary, And Make Him Less Dissatisfied With Himself By Every Kind And Civil Expression That May Be Used With Truth; Such As, You Understand The Game Better Than I, But You Are A Little Inattentive, Or, You Play Too Fast; Or, You Had The Best Of The Game, But Something Happened To Divert Your Thoughts, And That Turned It In My Favour.

-Benjamin Franklin

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You Must Not, When You Have Gained A Victory, Use Any Triumphing Or Insulting Expressions, Nor Show Too Much Of The Pleasure You Feel; But Endeavour To Console Your Adversary, And Make Him Less Dissatisfied With Himself By Every Kind And Civil Expression That May Be Used With Truth; Such As, You Understand The Game Better Than I, But You Are A Little Inattentive, Or, You Play Too Fast; Or, You Had The Best Of The Game, But Something Happened To Divert Your Thoughts, And That Turned It In My Favour.

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A Nation Of Well-informed Men Who Have Been Taught To Know And Prize The Rights Which God Has Given Them Cannot Be Enslaved. It Is In The Region Of Ignorance That Tyranny Begins.” Benjamin Franklin

Great Good Nature Without Prudence Is A Great Misfortune.

Men And Melons Are Hard To Know.

Never Ruin An Apology With An Excuse.

Would You Live With Ease, Do What You Ought, And Not What You Please.

The Honest Man Takes Pains, And Then Enjoys Pleasures; The Knave Takes Pleasure, And Then Suffers Pains.

When Confronted With Two Courses Of Action I Jot Down On A Piece Of Paper All The Arguments In Favor Of Each One, Then On The Opposite Side I Write The Arguments Against Each One. Then By Weighing The Arguments Pro And Con And Cancelling Them Out, One Against The Other, I Take The Course Indicated By What Remains.

Be Slow In Choosing A Friend, Slower In Changing.

A Light Purse Is A Heavy Curse.

The Learned Fool Writes His Nonsense In Better Language Than The Unlearned, But It Is Still Nonsense.

Don't Think So Much Of Your Own Cunning, As To Forget Other Men's; A Cunning Man Is Overmatched By A Cunning Man And A Half.

Our Friend And We Were Invited Aboard On A Party Of Pleasure, Which Is To Last Forever. His Chair Was Ready First, And He Has Gone Before Us. We Could Not All Conveniently Start Together; And Why Should You And I Be Grieved At This, Since We Are Soon To Follow, And Know Where To Find Him.

As Sore Places Meet Most Rubs, Proud Folks Meet Most Affronts.

Some Are Weatherwise, Some Are Otherwise.

There Was Great Difference In Persons; And Discretion Did Not Always Accompany Years, Nor Was Youth Always Without It.

Never Contradict Anybody.

When You Incline To Have New Clothes, Look First Well Over The Old Ones, And See If You Cannot Shift With Them Another Year, Either By Scouring, Mending, Or Even Patching If Necessary. Remember, A Patch On Your Coat, And Money In Your Pocket, Is Better And More Creditable, Than A Writ On Your Back, And No Money To Take It Off.

Virtue Alone Is Sufficient To Make A Man Great, Glorious, And Happy.

Without Continual Growth And Progress, Such Words As Improvement, Achievement, And Success Have No Meaning.

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The Apostle Paul Very Seriously Advised Timothy To Put Some Wine In His Water For Health's Sake, But Not One Of The Apostles Nor Any Of The Holy Fathers Have Ever Recommended Putting Water In Wine

Little Rogues Easily Become Great Ones.

Disdain The Chain, Preserve Your Freedom; And Maintain Your Independency: Be Industrious And Free; Be Frugal And Free.

Much Virtue In Herbs, Little In Men.

Strict Punctuality Is A Cheap Virtue.

Women And Wine, Game And Deceit, Make The Wealth Small, And The Want Great

They That Can Give Up Essential Liberty To Purchase A Little Temporary Safety, Deserve Neither Liberty Nor Safety.

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Read Much, But Not Too Many Books.

Beware Of Meat Twice Boiled, And An Old Foe Reconciled.

Every Pot Must Sit On Its Own Bottom.

Nor Is It Of Much Importance To Us To Know The Manner In Which Nature Executes Her Laws; 'tis Enough To Know The Laws Themselves.

Common Sense Is Something That Everyone Needs, Few Have, And None Think They Lack.

If You Wou'd Be Reveng'd Of Your Enemy, Govern Your Self

Revealed Religion Has No Weight With Me.

Never Take A Wife Till Thou Hast A House (and A Fire) To Put Her In.

Money Is Of A Prolific Generating Nature. Money Can Beget Money, And Its Offspring Can Beget More.

After Getting The First Hundred Pounds, It Is More Easy To Get The Second.

A Wise Man Will Desire No More Than What He May Get Justly, Use Soberly, Distribute Cheerfully, And Leave Contently.

Ambition Has Its Disappointments To Sour Us, But Never The Good Fortune To Satisfy Us. Its Appetite Grows Keener By Indulgence And All We Can Gratify It With At Present Serves But The More To Inflame Its Insatiable Desires.

Beware Of The Young Doctor And The Old Barber.

Fart For Freedom, Fart For Liberty—and Fart Proudly.

A Policy Of Life Insurance Is The Cheapest And Safest Mode Of Making A Certain Provision For One's Family.

What Signifies Philosophy That Does Not Apply To Some Use? May We Not Learn From Hence, That Black Clothes Are Not So Fit To Wear In A Hot Sunny Climate Or Season, As White Ones; Because In Such Cloaths The Body Is More Heated By The Sun When We Walk Abroad, And Are At The Same Time Heated By The Exercise, Which Double Heat Is Apt To Bring On Putrid Dangerous Fevers? The Soldiers And Seamen, Who Must March And Labour In The Sun, Should In The East Or West Indies Have An Uniform Of White?

He That By The Plough Would Thrive, Himself Must Either Hold Or Drive.

Genius Is The Ability To Hold One's Vision Steady Until It Becomes Reality

Let Honesty Be As The Breath Of Thy Soul; Then Shalt Thou Reach The Point Of Happiness, And Independence Shall Be Thy Shield And Buckler, Thy Helmet And Crown; Then Shall Thy Soul Walk Upright, Nor Stoop To The Silken Wretch Because He Hath Riches, Nor Pocket An Abuse Because The Hand Which Offers It Wears A Ring Set With Diamonds.

If You Would Not Be Forgotten, Do Things Worth Remembering.

Eat Few Suppers, And You'll Need Few Medicines.

Carelessness Does More Harm Than A Want Of Knowledge.

Force Shites Upon Reason's Back.

Duty Is Not Beneficial Because It Is Commanded, But Is Commanded Because It Is Beneficial.

That Which Hurts, Also Instructs.

That As We Enjoy Great Advantages From The Inventions Of Others, We Should Be Glad Of An Opportunity To Serve Others By Any Invention Of Ours, And This We Should Do Freely And Generously.

If You Want To Make A Friend, Let Someone Do You A Favor.

Freedom Is Not A Gift Bestowed Upon Us By Other Men, But A Right That Belongs To Us By The Laws Of God And Nature.

If We Restrict Liberty To Attain Security We Will Lose Them Both.

You Can Do Anything You Set Your Mind To

Take Time For All Things: Great Haste Makes Great Waste.

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Fiction Or Fable Allures To Instruction.

He That Won't Be Counseled Can't Be Helped.

We Are Not Certain, We Are Never Certain. If We Were We Could Reach Some Conclusions, And We Could, At Last, Make Others Take Us Seriously. In This World Nothing Can Be Said To Be Certain, Except Death And Taxes.

I Say It Is Impossible That So Sensible A People [citizens Of Paris], Under Such Circumstances, Should Have Lived So Long By The Smoky, Unwholesome, And Enormously Expensive Light Of Candles, If They Had Really Known That They Might Have Had As Much Pure Light Of The Sun For Nothing.

Who Is Wise? He That Learns From Everyone. Who Is Powerful? He That Governs His Passions. Who Is Rich? He That Is Content. Who Is That? Nobody.

Laws Too Gentle Are Seldom Obeyed; Too Severe, Seldom Executed.

To Be Thrown Upon One's Own Resources, Is To Be Cast In The Very Lap Of Fortune.

If Time Be Of All Things The Most Precious, Wasting Time Must Be, As Poor Richard Says, “the Greatest Prodigality'; Since, As He Elsewhere Tells Us, 'lost Time Is Never Found Again'; And 'what We Call Time Enough Always Proves Little Enough'. Let Us Then Up And Be Doing, And Doing To The Purpose; So By Diligence Shall We Do More With Less Perplexity.

The Greatest Inventions Are Those Inquiries Which Tend To Increase The Power Of Man Over Matter.

The Ancients Tell Us What Is Best; But We Must Learn Of The Moderns What Is Fittest.

People Who Are Wrapped Up In Themselves Make Small Packages.

Private Property...is The Creature Of Society And Is Subject To The Calls Of That Society Even To The Last Farthing.

If You Can't Pay For A Thing, Don't Buy It. If You Can't Get Paid For It, Don't Sell It. Do This, And You Will Have Calm And Drowsy Nights, With All Of The Good Business You Have Now And None Of The Bad. If You Have Time, Don't Wait For Time.

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In Order For Three People To Keep A Secret, Two Must Be Dead.

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I Think That A Young State, Like A Young Virgin, Should Modestly Stay At Home, And Wait The Application Of Suitors For An Alliance With Her; And Not Run About Offering Her Amity To All The World; And Hazarding Their Refusal. Our Virgin Is A Jolly One; And Tho At Present Not Very Rich, Will In Time Be A Great Fortune, And Where She Has A Favorable Predisposition, It Seems To Me Well Worth Cultivating.

Pride That Dines On Vanity, Sups On Contempt.

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I Have Heard That Nothing Gives An Author So Great Pleasure, As To Find His Works Respectfully Quoted By Other Learned Authors.

La Pereza Anda Tan Despacio Que La Pobreza No Tarda En Alcanzarla.

I Am For Doing Good To The Poor, But I Differ In Opinion About The Means. I Think The Best Way Of Doing Good To The Poor Is Not Making Them Easy In Poverty, But Leading Or Driving Them Out Of It.

In Humility Imitate Jesus And Socrates.

Whether A Commonwealth Suffers More By Hypocritical Pretenders To Religion Or By The Openly Profane? The Most Dangerous Hypocrite In A Commonwealth Is One Who Leaves The Gospel For The Sake Of The Law. A Man Compounded Of Law And Gospel Is Able To Cheat A Whole Country With His Religion And Then Destroy Them Under Color Of Law.

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.

There's No Gain, Without Pain.

Mary's Mouth Cost Her Nothing For She Never Opens It But At Others' Expense.

While We May Not Be Able To Control All That Happens To Us, We Can Control What Happens Inside Us.

Freedom Of Speech Is The Great Bulwark Of Liberty; They Prosper And Die Together: And It Is The Terror Of Traitors And Oppressors, And A Barrier Against Them. It Produces Excellent Writers, And Encourages Men Of Fine Genius.

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Use Now And Then A Little Exercise A Quarter Of An Hour Before Meals, As To Swing A Weight, Or Swing Your Arms About With A Small Weight In Each Hand; To Leap, Or The Like, For That Stirs The Muscles Of The Breast.

Many A Long Dispute Among Divines May Be Thus Abridged: It Is So; It Is Not So. It Is So; It Is Not So.

Many Would Live By Their Wits, But Break For Want Of Stock.

Necessity Is Our Quickest Excuse.

He That Is Of The Opinion Money Will Do Everything May Well Be Suspected Of Doing Everything For Money.

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I Have Sometimes Almost Wished It Had Been My Destiny To Be Born Two Or Three Centuries Hence.

It's The Easiest Thing In The World For A Man To Deceive Himself.

For Every Minute Spent In Organizing, An Hour Is Earned.

A Little Religion, And A Little Honesty, Goes A Great Way In Courts.

Repeal That [welfare] Law, And You Will Soon See A Change In Their Manners. ... Six Days Shalt Thou Labor, Though One Of The Old Commandments Long Treated As Out Of Date, Will Again Be Looked Upon As A Respectable Precept; Industry Will Increase, And With It Plenty Among The Lower People; Their Circumstances Will Mend, And More Will Be Done For Their Happiness By Inuring Them To Provide For Themselves, Than Could Be Done By Dividing All Your Estates Among Them.

The One Who Fails To Prepare Is Preparing To Fail.

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Lighthouses Are More Helpful Than Churches.

Acquire Riches By Industry And Frugality.

The Good Or Ill Hap Of A Good Or Ill Life, Is The Good Or Ill Choice Of A Good Or Ill Wife.

Electrical Matter Differs From Common Matter In This, That The Parts Of The Latter Mutually Attract, Those Of The Former Mutually Repel Each Other.

Speak With Contempt Of None, From Slave To King, The Meanest Bee Hath, And Will Use, A Sting.

Despair Ruins Some, Presumption Many.

Onions Can Make Even Heirs And Widows Weep.

That Is Simple. In The Colonies We Issue Our Own Money. It Is Called Colonial Scrip. We Issue It In Proper Proportion To The Demands Of Trade And Industry To Make The Products Pass Easily From The Producers To The Consumers. In This Manner Creating For Ourselves Our Own Paper Money, We Control Its Purchasing Power, And We Have No Interest To Pay.

I Have Met The Enemy, And It Is The Eyes Of Other People.

Sloth, Like Rust, Consumes Faster Than Labor Wears, While The Used Key Is Always Bright.

Some Men Grow Mad By Studying Much To Know, But Who Grows Mad By Studying Good To Grow.

Scarcely Have I Ever Heard Or Read The Introductory Phrase, "i May Say Without Vanity," But Some Striking And Characteristic Instance Of Vanity Has Immediately Followed.

Life Is A Kind Of Chess, With Struggle, Competition, Good And Ill Events.

The States Acceded To The Union.

Great Spenders Are Bad Lenders.

Do You Love Truth For Truth's Sake, And Will You Endeavor Impartially To Find And Receive It Yourself, And Communicate It To Others?

The Next Thing Most Like Living One's Life Over Again Seems To Be A Recollection Of That Life, And To Make That Recollection As Durable As Possible By Putting It Down In Writing.

In The Beginning Of The Contest With Britain, When We Were Sensible Of Danger, We Had Daily Prayers In This Room For Divine Protection," He Stated. "our Prayers, Sir, Were Heard, And They Were Graciously Answered. ... Do We Imagine We No Longer Need His Assistance?

Stand Firm, Don't Flutter!

Who Has Deceived Thee As Oft As Thyself.

Poverty Often Deprives A Man Of All Spirit And Virtue; It Is Hard For An Empty Bag To Stand Upright.

When Passion Rules, She Never Rules Wisely.

To All Apparent Beauties Blind, Each Blemish Strikes An Envious Mind.

It Is The Duty Of Mankind On All Suitable Occasions To Acknowledge Their Dependence On The Divine Being... Almighty God Would Mercifully Interpose And Still The Rage Of War Among The Nations... He Would Take This Province Under His Protection, Confound The Designs And Defeat The Attempts Of Its Enemies, And Unite Our Hearts And Strengthen Our Hands In Every Undertaking That May Be For The Public Good, And For Our Defense And Security In This Time Of Danger.

A Learned Blockhead Is A Greater Blockhead Than An Ignorant One.

To Be Thrown Upon One's Own Resources Is To Be Cast Into The Very Lap Of Fortune; For Our Faculties Then Undergo A Development And Display An Energy Of Which They Were Previosly Unsusceptible.

The Only Things Of Certainty Are Death And Taxes.

Nothing But Money, Is Sweeter Than Honey.

There Have Been As Great Souls Unknown To Fame As Any Of The Most Famous.

Pity And Forbearance Should Characterize All Acts Of Justice.

If Any Form Of Government Is Capable Of Making A Nation Happy, Ours I Think Bids Fair Now For Producing That Effect. But After All Much Depends Upon The People Who Are Governed.

I Have So Much Faith In The General Government Of The World By Providence That I Can Hardly Conceive A Transaction Of Such Momentous Importance [as The Framing Of The Constitution] ... Should Be Suffered To Pass Without Being In Some Degree Influenced, Guided, And Governed By That Omnipotent, Omnipresent, And Beneficent Ruler In Whom All Inferior Spirits Live And Move And Have Their Being.

The Great Secret Of Succeeding In Conversation Is To Admire Little, To Hear Much; Always To Distrust Our Own Reason, And Sometimes That Of Our Friends; Never To Pretend To Wit, But To Make That Of Others Appear As Much As Possibly We Can; To Hearken To What Is Said And To Answer To The Purpose.

What You Would Seem To Be, Be Really.

Time Like A Petal In The Wind Flows Softly By As Old Lives Are Taken New Ones Begin A Continual Chain Which Lasts Throughout Eternity Every Life But A Minute In Time But Each Of Equal Importance

When You Taste Honey, Remember Gall.

Fools Make Feasts And Wise Men Eat Them.

Time Is An Herb That Cures All Diseases.

If You Would Know The Value Of Money, Go And Try To Borrow Some.

Employ Thy Time Well, If Thou Meanest To Gain Leisure.

In Success Be Moderate. Humility Makes Great Men Twice Honourable.

Do You Love Life? Then Don't Waste Time, Because Time Is Life!

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A Man In A Passion, Rides A Mad Horse.

Life Is Rather A State Of Embryo, A Preparation For Life; A Man Is Not Completely Born Till He Has Passed Through Death.

A Great Empire, Like A Great Cake, Is Most Easily Diminished At The Edges.

If You Want A Neat Wife, Choose Her On A Saturday.

You Can't Tell Anyone Anything. You Have To Teach People For Them To Remember. Let The Person Experience What You Are Teaching And They Will Learn.

People Want To Catch A Buzz. That Is Why Drugs Are Illegal, Yet People Still Try To Get Their Hands On Them No Matter What The Consequence. Drugs Make Us Happy, They May Not Be Healthy.

If Everyone Is Thinking Alike, Then No One Is Thinking.

Anger And Folly Walk Cheeck By Jowl.

Reckless Youth Makes Rueful Age.

In General, Mankind, Since The Improvement Of Cookery, Eats Twice As Much As Nature Requires.

What One Relishes, Nourishes.

Ben Franklin Was A Little Stout Later In Life And It Was Said That In Paris A Young Woman, Tapping Him On His Protruding Abdomen, Said,"dr. Franklin, If This Were On A Woman, We'd Know What To Think." And Franklin Replied,"half An Hour Ago, Mademoiselle, It Was On A Woman, And Now What Do You Think?"

He That Drinks Fast, Pays Slow. Beer Is Proof That God Loves Us And Wants Us To Be Happy. There Can't Be Good Living Where There Is Not Good Drinking.

E'er You Remark Another's Sin, Bid Your Own Conscience Look Within.

The Grand Leap Of The Whale Up The Fall Of Niagara Is Esteemed, By All Who Have Seen It, As One Of The Finest Spectacles In Nature.

My Dear Friend, Do Not Imagine That I Am Vain Enough To Ascribe Our Success [revolution] To Any Superiority . . . If It Had Not Been For The Justice Of Our Cause, And The Consequent Interposition Of Providence, In Which We Had Faith, We Must Have Been Ruined. If I Had Ever Before Been An Atheist, I Should Now Have Been Convinced Of The Being And Government Of A Deity!

Buy What Thou Hast No Need Of And Ere Long Thou Shalt Sell Thy Necessities.

As To Jesus Of Nazareth, My Opinion Of Whom You Particularly Desire, I Think The System Of Morals And His Religion, As He Left Them To Us, The Best The World Ever Saw Or Is Likely To See; But I Apprehend It Has Received Various Corrupting Changes; And I Have, With Most Of The Present Dissenters In England, Some Doubts As To His Divinity.

You Will Find The Key To Success Under The Alarm Clock.

If A Man Could Have Half Of His Wishes, He Would Double His Troubles.

There Are No Ugly Loves Nor Handsome Prisons.

The Handshake Of The Host Affects The Taste Of The Roast

Evils Come Not, Then Our Fears Are Vain; And If They Do Fear But Augments The Pain.

Those Who Give Up Liberty For The Sake Of Security, Deserve Neither Liberty Nor Security.

It Is The Working Man Who Is The Happy Man. It Is The Idle Man Who Is The Miserable Man.

Private Property ... Is A Creature Of Society, And Is Subject To The Calls Of That Society, Whenever Its Necessities Shall Require It, Even To Its Last Farthing, Its Contributors Therefore To The Public Exigencies Are Not To Be Considered A Benefit On The Public, Entitling The Contributors To The Distinctions Of Honor And Power, But As The Return Of An Obligation Previously Received, Or As Payment For A Just Debt.

He Is No Clown That Drives The Plow, But He That Doth Clownish Things.

Money Makes Money. And The Money That Makes Money Makes More Money.

Nothing Is More Fatal To Health Than An Over Care Of It.

Old Boys Have Their Playthings As Well As Young Ones; The Difference Is Only In The Price.

Security Without Liberty Is Called Prison.

Handle Your Tools Without Mittens.

Proclaim Not All Though Knowest, Or All Though Owest.

Neglect Mending A Small Fault And 'twill Soon Be A Great One.

Be Not Sick Too Late, Nor Well Too Soon

To Bear Other People's Afflictions, Everyone Has Courage And Enough To Spare.

That Quantity That Is Sufficient, The Stomach Can Perfectly Concoct And Digest, And It Sufficeth The Due Nourishment Of The Body.

We Must, Indeed, All Hang Together Or, Most Assuredly, We Shall All Hang Separately.

The Wise And The Brave Dares Own That He Was Wrong.

Pardoning The Bad, Is Injuring The Good.

If Time Be Of All Things The Most Precious, Wasting Time Must Be The Greatest Prodigality.

Where Security Exists, Liberty And Opportunity Do Not.

Taxes Are Indeed Very Heavy - We Are Taxed Twice As Much By Our Idleness. Three Times As Much By Our Pride. And Four Times As Much By Our Folly.

Why Should I Give My Readers Bad Lines Of My Own When Good Ones Of Other People's Are So Plenty?

The Doors Of Wisdom Are Never Shut.

He That Pursues Two Hares At Once, Does Not Catch One And Lets The Other Go.

There Are Two Ways To Increase Your Wealth. Increase Your Means Or Decrease Your Wants. The Best Is To Do Both At The Same Time.

The Thrifty Maxim Of The Wary Dutch, Is To Save All The Money They Can Touch

It Is Easier To Build Two Chimneys Than To Keep One In Fuel.

Do Not Fear Mistakes.

Be In General Virtuous, And You Will Be Happy.

I Would Rather Have It Said, 'he Lived Usefully,' Than, 'he Died Rich.'

Human Felicity Is Produced Not As Much By Great Pieces Of Good Fortune That Seldom Happen As By Little Advantages That Occur Every Day.

God Helps Those Who Help Themselves.

Pain Wastes The Body, Pleasures The Understanding.

Pride Gets Into The Coach, And Shame Mounts Behind.

There Never Was A Truly Great Man That Was Not At The Same Time Truly Virtuous.

Tis Easy To See, Hard To Foresee.

A Nod From A Lord Is A Breakfast For A Fool.

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