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«Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
purchase
«Time is an herb that cures all Diseases.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
cure-all, cures, herb
«Wide will wear, but Narrow will tear.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
wear and tear
«While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.»
«Drive your business, let not you're business drive you.»
«Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
guests
«It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
working man
«Every accent, every emphasis, every modulation of voice, was so perfectly well turned and well placed, that, without being interested in the subject, one could not help being pleased with the discourse; a pleasure of much the same kind with that received from an excellent piece of music. This is an advantage itinerant preachers have over those who are stationary, as the latter can not well improve their delivery of a sermon by so many rehearsals.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
accent, delivery, discourse, itinerant, modulation, modulations, piece of music, rehearsals, sermon, well-turned
«He that has neither fools, whores nor beggars among his kindred, is the son of a thunder-gust»
«If it be the design of Providence to extirpate these savages in order to make room for the cultivation of the earth, it seems not improbable that rum may be the appointed means.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
appointed, cultivation, extirpate, improbable, providence, rum, savages
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