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" The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise. "
Benjamin Franklin
Noise
Worst
Makes
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" So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do. "
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" Distrust and caution are the parents of security. "
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Security
Parents
" I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old. "
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Being
Guess
" Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion. "
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" I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first. "
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Same
Life
" Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five. "
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Five
Die
Twenty
" It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it. "
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Reputation
Bad
Build
" 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. "
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Nobody
Content
Powerful
" I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong. "
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Just
Found
Fail
" He that can have patience can have what he will. "
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He
Will
Patience
" Those that won't be counseled can't be helped. "
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Helped
Those
" If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing. "
Benjamin Franklin
Dead
You
Writing
" Beware the hobby that eats. "
Benjamin Franklin
Hobby
Beware
Eats
" A penny saved is two pence clear. "
Benjamin Franklin
Saved
Two
Clear
" From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books. Pleased with the 'Pilgrim's Progress,' my first collection was of John Bunyan's works in separate little volumes. "
Benjamin Franklin
Hands
Child
Reading
" Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man. "
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War
Man
Peace
" I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things. "
Benjamin Franklin
Mankind
Things
Value
" Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting. "
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Sense
Where
Wanting
" Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. "
Benjamin Franklin
Most
Fools
Fool
" We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information. "
Benjamin Franklin
People
Easy
Improvement
" Who had deceived thee so often as thyself? "
Benjamin Franklin
Thee
Often
Thyself
" If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality. "
Benjamin Franklin
Wasting Time
Time
Precious
" Lost time is never found again. "
Benjamin Franklin
Never
Again
Found
" To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals. "
Benjamin Franklin
Thy
Lessen
Life
" In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. "
Benjamin Franklin
Reality
Pride
Passions
" Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy. "
Benjamin Franklin
See
Wine
Us
" When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration? "
Benjamin Franklin
Will
Agree
Difficulties
" For my own part, I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen the representative of our country. He is a bird of bad moral character. He does not get his living honestly. "
Benjamin Franklin
Bird
Moral
Wish
" A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats. "
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Like
Lawyers
Fish
" No nation was ever ruined by trade. "
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Ruined
Trade
Nation