953 ordspråk av Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
Opportunity is the great Bawd.
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Originality is the art of concealing your sources
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Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes
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Our necessities never equal our wants
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Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
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Our whole life is but a greater and longer childhood
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Pain wastes the Body, Pleasures the Understanding
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Passion governs, and she never governs wisely.
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Pay what you owe, and you'll know what's your own.
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Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
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Pollio, who values nothing that's within, Buys books as men hunt Beavers, -- for their Skin.
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Poor Dick, eats like a well man, and drinks like a sick
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Poor man, said I, you pay too much for your whistle.
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Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright
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Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things
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