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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Well done is better than well said.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: equity, justice, laws
    1368 likes

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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: death, life, wordplay
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Never ruin an apology with an excuse.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: advice, apology
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: willful-ignorance
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “You may delay, but time will not.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: procrastination, time, time-quotes
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: hmmm
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: learning, mentoring, parenting, teacher
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of the life & writings of Benjamin Franklin
    tags: freedom, liberty, privacy, safety, security
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack
    tags: secrets
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: planning, preparation
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: freedom, jefferson, security, thomas, thomas-jefferson
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: books, censorship, reading
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Lost time is never found again.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack
    tags: time, wisdom
    782 likes

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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened.”
    ― Winston Churchill
    tags: ignorance, truth
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “When you're testing to see how deep water is, never use two feet.”
    ― Ben Franklin
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: excuses, humor
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Were I a Roman Catholic, perhaps I should on this occasion vow to build a chapel to some saint, but as I am not, if I were to vow at all, it should be to build a light-house.

    [Letter to his wife, 17 July 1757, after narrowly avoiding a shipwreck; often misquoted as "Lighthouses are more helpful than churches."]”
    ― Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin Volume 2
    tags: 1757, churches, inspirational, lighthouse
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: marriage
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  • #22
    Nelson DeMille
    “The problem with doing nothing is that you never know when you're finished.”
    ― Nelson DeMille
    tags: humor
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: philosophy, wisdom
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Security without liberty is called prison.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: comedy, horror, misattributed-ben-franklin
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin, Silence Dogood / The Busy-Body / Early Writings
    tags: freedom, freedom-of-speech, liberty
    304 likes

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    Benjamin Franklin
    “He that lieth down with Dogs, shall rise up with Fleas.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “The only thing that is more expensive than education is ignorance.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
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  • #30
    Benjamin Franklin
    “We do not stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing!”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: games
    181 likes



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