Ignorance leads men into a party, and shame keeps them from getting out again.
Benjamin FranklinIn reality there is perhaps no one of our natural Passions so hard to subdue as Pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will now and then peek out and show itself.
Benjamin FranklinThis gave me occasion to observe, that when Men are employ'd they are best contented. For on the Days they work'd they were good-natur'd and chearful; and with the consciousness of having done a good Days work they spent the Evenings jollily; but on the idle Days they were mutinous and quarrelsome, finding fault with their Pork, the Bread, and in continual ill-humour. (Autobiography, 1771)
Benjamin FranklinI 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.
Benjamin FranklinLost Time is never found again.
Benjamin FranklinBe slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
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Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
Benjamin FranklinTo find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girlfriends.
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For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head.
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It is ill-manners to silence a fool and cruelty to let him go on
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