"Industry pays debts, while despair increases them...." - Quote by Benjamin Franklin
Industry pays debts, while despair increases them.
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“The good particular men may do separately, in relieving the sick, is small, compared with what they may do collectively.”
“What more valuable than Gold? Diamonds. Than Diamonds? Virtue.”
“Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.”
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“Let me get a sip of water here... you figure this stuff is safe to drink? Actually, I don't care, I drink it anyway. You know why? Because I'm an American and I expect a little cancer in my food and water. I'm a loyal American and I'm not happy unless I let government and industry poison me a little bit every day.”
“Khadi will be the sun of the whole industrial solar system.”
“Gaining money by my industry and frugality, I lived very agreeably. . . .”
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“Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.”
“I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.”
“A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.”