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«If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some; for he that goes a- borrowing goes a-sorrowing»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
sorrowing
«With regard to future bliss, I cannot help imagining that multitudes of the zealously orthodox of different sects, who at the last day may flock together in hopes of seeing each other damned, will be disappointed, and obliged to rest content With the»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Happiness
| Keywords:
Last Day, multitudes, obliged, regard to, with regard to, zealously
«I never saw an oft-transplanted tree, Nor yet an oft-removed family, That throve so well as those that settled be»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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family tree, oft, removed, settled, throve, transplant, transplanted, transplanting, transplants
«As sore places meet most rubs, proud folks meet most affronts»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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affronted, affronts, meeting place, rubs, sore
«When a religion is good, I conceive that it will support, itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not take care to support it, so that its professors are obliged to call for help of the civil power, 'tis a sign, I apprehend, of its»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
apprehended, apprehending, call for, Call for help, obliged
«Never praise your Cider, Horse, or Bedfellow»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Praise
| Keywords:
bedfellow, bedfellows, cider
«Many a long dispute among divines may be thus abridged: It is so. It is not so. It is so. It is not so.»
«Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.»
«Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
confute, confuted, confutes, confuting, contradicting, disputing, good will, unfortunate
«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.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
commend, courting
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