A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.

Benjamin Franklin


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The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.

Benjamin Franklin

Mots clés words reading books literature illiteracy pity



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Hide not your talents, they for use were made,
What's a sundial in the shade?

Benjamin Franklin

Mots clés wisdom talent work



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It's better to swim in the sea below
Than to swing in the air and feed the crow,
Says jolly Ned Teach of Bristol.

Benjamin Franklin

Mots clés poetry blackbeard hanging pirates



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All would live long, but none would be old.

Benjamin Franklin


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Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

[misquote of a letter about wine, see quotes/831031]

Benjamin Franklin

Mots clés misquote drinking beer



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We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

Benjamin Franklin

Mots clés willful-ignorance



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Women are books, and men the readers be...

Benjamin Franklin


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All the little money that ever came into my hands was ever laid out in books.

Benjamin Franklin


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...but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

Benjamin Franklin

Mots clés certainty taxes 1789



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