Benjamin Franklin
Politician
1706-01-17 – 1790-04-17
Benjamin Franklin was an American polymath, statesman, diplomat, inventor, and writer who was one of the principal founders of the United States.
Books by Benjamin Franklin
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
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Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin illustrated
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Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
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Games lubricate the body and mind.
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How grossly are they mistaken in imagining slavery to be disallowed by the Alcoran! Are not the two precepts, to quote no more, Masters treat your slaves with kindness: Slaves serve your masters with cheerfulness and fidelity, clear proofs to the contrary? Nor can the plundering of infidels be in that sacred book forbidden, since it is well known from it, that God has given the world and all that it contains to his faithful Mussulmen, who are to enjoy it of right as fast as they can conquer it. Let us then hear no more of this detestable proposition, the manumission of christian slaves, the adoption of which would, by depreciating our lands and houses, and thereby depriving so many good citizens of their properties, create universal discontent, and provoke insurrections, to the endangering of government, and producing general confusion.
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I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives.
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Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him.
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If you would be remembered, write a book worth the reading or live a life worth the writing about.
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If we look back into history for the character of present sects in Christianity, we shall find few that have not in their turns been persecutors, and complainers of persecution. The primitive Christians thought persecution extremely wrong in the Pagans, but practised it on one another. The first Protestants of the Church of England, blamed persecution in the Roman church, but practised it against the Puritans: these found it wrong in the Bishops, but fell into the same practice themselves both here and in New En
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If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty.
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They who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor S
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Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.
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The securest place is a prison cell, but there is no liberty
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Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
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Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.
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... a book indeed sometimes debauched me from my work....
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If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.
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The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.
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Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that.
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Great hopes make everything great possible.
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You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.
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The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality: that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality nothing will do, and with them everything.
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An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
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