About Benjamin Franklin:

Benjamin Franklin is known for the lightning rod, bifocals, and the Franklin stove, among other inventions. He facilitated many civic organizations, including Philadelphia's fire department and a university.

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The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.

Benjamin Franklin

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

Benjamin Franklin

There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Benjamin Franklin

Remember that credit is money.

Benjamin Franklin

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

Benjamin Franklin

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

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Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

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All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

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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 acqu...

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Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

Benjamin Franklin

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

Benjamin Franklin

Well done is better than well said.

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By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

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Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

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Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

Benjamin Franklin

When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.

Benjamin Franklin

Nine men in ten are would be suicides.

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Observe all men, thyself most.

Benjamin Franklin

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

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He that can have patience can have what he will.

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It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

Benjamin Franklin

Author Bio

NameBenjamin Franklin
DescriptionAmerican author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat
AliasesThe First American; Silence Dogood; Ben Franklin
BornJanuary 17, 1706
DiedApril 17, 1790
CountryUnited States Of America
ProfessionWriter; Politician; Publisher; Printer; Political Theorist; Postmaster; Inventor; Political Activist; Statesman; Diplomat; Dilettante; Polymath; Chess Player; Designer; Musician; Political Philosopher; Autobiographer
AwardsFellow Of The Royal Society; Copley Medal

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