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Ben Franklin Quotes
"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

Industry need not wish

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and
success have no meaning.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it
yourself.

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.

Never confuse motion with action.

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits
are subtracted from your good ones.

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their
affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more
use to them."