953 ordspråk av Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
If your riches are yours, why don't you take them with to the other world?
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Ill Customs & bad Advice are seldom forgotten.
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In a discreet man's mouth, a public thing is private
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In each religion there are essential things, and others which are only forms and fashions; as a loaf of sugar may perhaps be wrapped in brown or white or blue paper, and tied with a string of flax or wool, red or yellow; but the sugar is always the e
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In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires
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In other men we faults can spy,/ And blame the mote that dims their eye;/ Each little speck and blemish find;/ To our own stronger errors blind.
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In prosperous fortunes be modest and wise, The greatest may fall, and the lowest may rise: But insolent People that fall in disgrace, Are wretched and no-body pities their Case.
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In rivers and bad governments, the lightest things swim at the top
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In success be moderate
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In the affairs of this world, men are saved, not by faith, but by the want of it
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In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
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Industry need not wish.
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Industry pays Debts, Despair increases them.
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Industry pays debts, while despair increaseth them
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Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.
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