Benjamin Franklin
Biography
A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author and printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, satirist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat.
Quotes from Benjamin Franklin
"It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it."
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"Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today."
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"Well done is better than well said."
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"Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning."
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"Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn."
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"It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man."
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"He that lives upon hope will die fasting."
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"I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong."
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"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of."
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"If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone."
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"So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do."
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"Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never."
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