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A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

Benjamin Franklin
Education, Work, Failure
Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.96, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

The Difficulty lies, in finding out an exact Measure but eat for Necessity, not Pleasure, for Lust knows not where Necessity ends.

Benjamin Franklin
Lying, Lust, Deceit
Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.101, Barnes & Noble Publishing

Wars are not paid for in wartime. The bill comes later.

Benjamin Franklin
Money, War, Bills

All would live long, but none would be old.

Benjamin Franklin
Long, Age, Would Be
Poor Richard's Almanack, Sept. 1749

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Benjamin Franklin
Acceptance, Self, Jewels
Benjamin Franklin (1962). “Representative selections: with introduction, bibliography, and notes”

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

Benjamin Franklin
Success, Money, Congratulations

[T]he more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer . . . [taking] away from before their eyes the greatest of all inducements to industry, frugality, and sobriety, by giving them a dependence of somewhat else than a careful accumulation during youth and health for support in age and sickness.

Benjamin Franklin
Eye, Government, Giving
Benjamin Franklin (1835). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin”, p.221

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Benjamin Franklin
War, Men, May
Benjamin Franklin (1905). “The Life of Benjamin Franklin: Written by Himself. Now First Edited from Original Manuscripts and from His Printed Correspondence and Other Writings”

If by the liberty of the press were understood merely the liberty of discussing the propriety of public measures and political opinions, let us have as much of it as you please: But if it means the liberty of affronting, calumniating and defaming one another, I, for my part, own myself willing to part with my share of it, whenever our legislators shall please so to alter the law and shall chearfully consent to exchange my liberty of abusing others for the privilege of not being abused myself.

Benjamin Franklin
Mean, Political Opinions, Law
Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.304, Printed for H. Colborn

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Benjamin Franklin
Birthday, Time, Growing Up
'Poor Richard's Almanac' (1741) June

By playing at Chess then, we may learn... First: Foresight. Second: Circumspection. Third: Caution.

Benjamin Franklin
May, Playing Chess, Firsts

To err is human, to repent divine; to persist devilish.

Benjamin Franklin
Motivational, Mistake, Divine
Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.88, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies.

Benjamin Franklin
Christian, Spiritual, Atheist

Marry above thy match and you will get a master.

Benjamin Franklin
Marriage, Masters

Great hopes make everything great possible

Benjamin Franklin
Great Hope

Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have either one.

Benjamin Franklin
Giving Up, 4th Of July, Order

Ill customs and bad advice are seldom forgotten.

Benjamin Franklin
Advice, Forgotten, Ill
Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

Hope of gain lessens pain.

Benjamin Franklin
Pain, Gains
Benjamin Franklin (1849). “Poor Richard's almanac for 1850-52”, p.33

Do you love truth for truth's sake, and will you endeavor impartially to find and receive it yourself, and communicate it to others?

Benjamin Franklin
Sake, Endeavor, Communicate
Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1809). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.359

In order for three people to keep a secret, two must be dead.

Benjamin Franklin
Funny, Witty, Order

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.

Benjamin Franklin
Leadership, Character, Deeds Done

A man must have a good deal of vanity who believes, and a good deal of boldness who affirms, that all the doctrines he holds are true, and all he rejects are false.

Benjamin Franklin
Believe, Men, Vanity
Benjamin Franklin, Walter Isaacson (2003). “A Benjamin Franklin Reader”, p.119, Simon and Schuster

Observe all men, thyself most.

Benjamin Franklin
Men, Self Observation, Poor Richard
Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.56, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

God helps those who help themselves.

Benjamin Franklin
Success, Bible, God
Jack Vincent, Benjamin Franklin (2010). “Benjamin Franklin's the Way to Wealth”, p.29, The Way to Wealth

Our whole life is but a greater and longer childhood.

Benjamin Franklin
Childhood, Life Is, Whole Life

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