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There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
~ Benjamin Franklin - [Self-knowledge]
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If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.
~ Benjamin Franklin - [Service]
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I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge of her faults, and whether she has the virtues I imagine she has? Answer. Commend her among her female acquaintances.
~ Benjamin Franklin - [Slander]
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Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
~ Benjamin Franklin - [Sleep]
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We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
~ Benjamin Franklin - [Stupidity]
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Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.
~ Benjamin Franklin - [Success]
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You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.
~ Benjamin Franklin - [Success]
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There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
~ Benjamin Franklin - [Taxes and Taxation]
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We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride and four times as much by our foolishness.
~ Benjamin Franklin - [Taxes and Taxation]
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Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
~ Benjamin Franklin - [Things and Little Things]
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