953 ordspråk av Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
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.
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An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.
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An Egg to day is better than a Hen to-morrow
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An empty Bag cannot stand upright.
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An innocent Plowman is more worthy than a vicious Prince.
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An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest
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An old Man in a House is a good Sign.
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An old young man, will be a young old man.
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An ounce of wit that is bought, Is worth a pound that is taught.
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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
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And he that pays ready Money, might let that Money out to Use: so that
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And where is the Prince who can afford to so cover his country with troops for its defense, as that ten thousand men descending from the clouds, might not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief, before a force could be brought together to repel them?
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And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief,Depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.
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Anger and Folly walk cheek-by-jole; Repentance treads on both their Heels.
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Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one
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