"What maintains one vice would bring up..." - Quote by Benjamin Franklin
What maintains one vice would bring up two children.
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“When you speak to a man, look on his eyes; when he speaks to you, look on his mouth.”
“Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires.”
“The first Degree of Folly, is to conceit one's self wise; the second to profess it; the third to despise Counsel.”
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“I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood".”
“Indeed envy is a defect; worse than any other.”
“Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition is the warmth and activity of it.”
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“Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.”
“The way to wealth depends on just two words, industry and frugality.”
“So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.”