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That as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.

That as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.

Benjamin Franklin
Opportunity, Invention, Advantage
Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”, p.178, Applewood Books

Anyone willing to give up liberty in exchange for security deserves neither.

Benjamin Franklin
Giving Up, Liberty, Willing

We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously. In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

Benjamin Franklin
World, Lasts, Said
Letter to Jean Baptiste Le Roy, 13 November 1789

An infallible Remedy for the Tooth-ach, viz Wash the Root of an aching Tooth, in Elder Vinegar, and let it dry half an hour in the Sun; after which it will never ach more; Probatum est.

Benjamin Franklin
Roots, Teeth, Half
Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.70, Barnes & Noble Publishing

The electrical matter consists of particles extremely subtile, since it can permeate common matter, even the densest metals, with such ease and freedom as not to receive any perceptible resistance. If anyone should doubt whether the electrical matter passes through the substance of bodies, or only over along their surfaces, a shock from an electrified large glass jar, taken through his own body, will probably convince him. Electrical matter differs from common matter in this, that the parts of the latter mutually attract, those of the former mutually repel each other.

Benjamin Franklin
Taken, Glasses, Doubt

Those who sacrifice essential liberty for temporary safety are not deserving of either liberty or safety.

Benjamin Franklin
Sacrifice, Safety, Liberty

Nothing in the world is certain except for death and taxes.

Benjamin Franklin
World, Certain, Taxes

He that drinks fast, pays slow. Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. There can't be good living where there is not good drinking.

Benjamin Franklin
Drinking, Beer, Alcohol

an enormous proportion of property vested in a few individuals is dangerous to the rights, and destructive of the common happiness of mankind, and, therefore, every free state hath a right by its laws to discourage the possession of such property.

Benjamin Franklin
Rights, Law, Common
Benjamin Franklin, Edmund Sears Morgan (2006). “Not Your Usual Founding Father: Selected Readings from Benjamin Franklin”, p.257, Yale University Press

There is no gains without pain.

Benjamin Franklin
Pain, Gains, Without Pain

It is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.

Benjamin Franklin
Two, Fuel, Easier
Benjamin Franklin (1848). “The Way to Wealth”, p.7

Life is a kind of chess.

Benjamin Franklin
Chess, Kind, Life Is
a Lady (is Nathaniel Cooke.), Benjamin Franklin (1859). “The A B C of Chess: Being a Concise and Easy Introduction to Chess, with Laws of the Game, Diagrams, &c”, p.48

Let thy maid servant be faithful, strong, and homely.

Benjamin Franklin
Strong, Faithful, Maids
Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.19, Courier Corporation

Great talkers, little doers.

Benjamin Franklin
Littles, Doers, Talkers
Benjamin Franklin, Ormond Seavey (1998). “Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.276, Oxford University Press, USA

What more valuable than Gold? Diamonds. Than Diamonds? Virtue.

Benjamin Franklin
Gold, Virtue, Diamond
Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.200, Barnes & Noble Publishing

The importation of foreigners into a country that has as many inhabitants as the present employments and provisions for subsistence will bear, will be in the end no increase of people, unless the new comers have more industry and frugality than the natives, and then they will provide more subsistence, and increase in the country; but they will gradually eat the natives out. Nor is it necessary to bring in foreigners to fill up any occasional vacancy in a country for such vacancy will soon be filled by natural generation.

Benjamin Franklin
Country, People, Generations
Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin, William Duane (1834). “Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin”, p.423

On second thought, it's a good thing love is blind otherwise it would see too much.

Benjamin Franklin
Love Is, Too Much, Blind

Willows are weak, but they bind the Faggot.

Benjamin Franklin
Weak, Poor Richard
Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.74, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Virtues, of ... Moderation: Avoid extremes. Forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.

Benjamin Franklin
Thinking, Virtue, Injury
Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1850). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: Published Verbatim from the Original Manuscript, by His Grandson, William Temple Franklin”, p.76

Necessity is our quickest excuse.

Benjamin Franklin
Excuse

By the word simplicity, is not always meant folly or ignorance; but often, pure and upright Nature, free from artifice, craft or deceitful ornament.

Benjamin Franklin
Ignorance, Simplicity, Ornaments
Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.261, Barnes & Noble Publishing

Often I sit up in my room reading the greatest part of the night, when the book was borrowed in the evening and to be returned early in the morning, lest it should be missed or wanted.

Benjamin Franklin
Morning, Book, Reading

It is the duty of mankind on all suitable occasions to acknowledge their dependence on the Divine Being.

Benjamin Franklin
Divine, Duty, Mankind
Andrew M. Allison, Willard Cleon Skousen, M. Richard Maxfield, Benjamin Franklin (1982). “The Real Benjamin Franklin”

If you want to be rich, think of the savings and get them.

Benjamin Franklin
Thinking, Saving, Want

People want to catch a buzz. That is why drugs are illegal, yet people still try to get their hands on them no matter what the consequence. Drugs make us happy, they may not be healthy.

Benjamin Franklin
Hands, People, Drug

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