"Here you would know, and enjoy, what..." - Quote by Benjamin Franklin
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More by Benjamin Franklin
“If you watch your pennies, the pounds will take care of themselves.”
“There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.”
“There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.”
More on Perspective
“I'm more interested in the future than in the past, because the future is where I intend to live.”
“One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom anpther's folly.”
“As one of my older friends says, "Nostalgia just isn't what it used to be." Let's take a stab at it, anyway.”
More on Time
“What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?”
“Make use of time, let not advantage slip.”
“I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart.”