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Benjamin Franklin was one of the wisest men to walk U.S. soil. It was by no means perfect. He didn't excel in relationships or marriage at all. However, he was great in business and said some of the most famous quotes ever repeated (for these quotes to not have come from great lines in plays or movies). Many of these you've heard but I bet you didn't know that he said them all. Check them out.
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- A good conscience is a continual Christmas.
- A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.
- A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
- A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
- A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
- A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- A penny saved is a penny earned.
- A place for everything, everything in its place.
- A small leak can sink a great ship.
- Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
- Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
- All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.
- All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.
- All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.
- An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
- And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.
- Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
- Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.
- Applause waits on success.
