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Quotations of selected author
Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790. American inventor, philosopher, diplomat and statesman. Inventor of lightning-rod.
1. "You may delay, but Time will not."
categories: Time and Passing
2. "Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody."
categories: Richness and Money
3. "Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame."
4. "Treason is a charge invented by winners as an excuse for hanging the losers."
categories: Loyalty and Betrayal
5. "To err is human, to repent divine, to persist devilish."
categories: Defeates and Mistakes
6. "To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light."
categories: Egoism -:- Wisdom and Stupidity -:- Knowledge, Ignorance
7. "Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead."
categories: Various
categories: Authority, Government -:- Law and Crime
9. "There are more old drunkards than old doctors."
categories: Health and Alcohol
10. "The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself."
categories: Happiness -:- Law and Crime
11. "Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it's hurtful."
categories: Sin and Conscience
12. "Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a mark of folly."
categories: Oration and Silence -:- Wisdom and Stupidity
13. "Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late."
categories: Life and Death -:- Wisdom and Stupidity -:- Youth and Age
categories: Health and Alcohol
15. "If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty."
categories: Beauty and Ugliness -:- Love
16. "He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals."
categories: Egoism
17. "Half the Truth is often a great Lie."
categories: Truth and Falsity
18. "God heals, and the Doctor takes the Fee."
categories: Health and Alcohol
19. "Genius without education is like silver in the mine."
categories: Talent and Genius -:- Education
categories: Life and Death
21. "Beware of the young doctor and the old barber."
categories: Health and Alcohol -:- Youth and Age
22. "Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one."
categories: Anger
23. "An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest."
categories: Education -:- Knowledge, Ignorance
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