“The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.”
— Benjamin Franklin
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Category: wisdom
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It is a grand mistake to think
“It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.”
— Benjamin Franklin
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Category: time
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Well done is better than well said.
“Well done is better than well said.”
— Benjamin Franklin
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Category: motivational
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In the affairs of this world, men
“In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.”
— Benjamin Franklin
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Category: men
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I should have no objection to go
“I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.”
— Benjamin Franklin
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Category: life
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The doors of wisdom are never shut.
“The doors of wisdom are never shut.”
— Benjamin Franklin
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Category: wisdom
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Diligence is the mother of good luck.
“Diligence is the mother of good luck.”
— Benjamin Franklin
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Category: good
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A life of leisure and a life
“A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.”
— Benjamin Franklin
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Category: life
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Wine is constant proof that God loves
“Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.”
— Benjamin Franklin
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Category: funny
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We are more thoroughly an enlightened people,
“We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.”
— Benjamin Franklin
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Category: respect
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A house is not a home unless
“A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.”
— Benjamin Franklin
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Category: home
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