"A little neglect may breed great mischief...." - Quote by Benjamin Franklin
A little neglect may breed great mischief.
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“The US Constitution only guarantees your rights as a citizen, it doesn't guarantee happiness. It may take work, but if you have your rights, happiness is very possible.”
“Fear not death; for the sooner we die, the longer shall we be immortal.”
“If you give up your freedom for safety, you don't deserve either one”
More on Neglect
“When I was a child I experienced moments of not wanting to see the ugliness, not wanting to see not being wanted. This lack of love went into my eyes and into my mind.”
“One of the reasons many people don't have what they want is neglect. Neglect starts out as an infection and then develops into a disease.”
“He says-him as was here just now-'When Tom shut up the house, mate, to go to rack, the beds was left, all made, like as if somebody was a-going to sleep in every bed. And if you was to walk through the bedrooms now, you'd see the ragged mouldy bedclothes a heaving and a heaving like seas. And a heaving and a heaving with what?' he says. 'Why, with the rats under 'em.'”
More on Consequences
“I always thought what an interesting idea because almost everybody's fascinated by the perpetrator of a crime; very few people study what happens to people for the rest of their lives, and how it affects not only that particular character but other characters around him as well.”
“The borrower runs in his own debt.”
“Old men make war, young men fight and die”