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«Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Luxury,
Poverty
| Keywords:
avarice
«A little House well fill'd, a little Field well till'd, and a little Wife well will'd, are great Riches»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
field, fill, Great Houses, house, riches, till, wife
«Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
Open Wide, wide-open
«Want of care does us more damage than want of knowledge»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Caring,
Knowledge
| Keywords:
damage
«Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.»
«I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Death and dying,
Hunger
| Keywords:
a hundred thousand, hundred thousand
«All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
partnership, partnerships, sanction, sanctioned, sanctions
«The best of all medicines is resting and fasting»
«The Difficulty lies, in finding out an exact Measure; but eat for Necessity, not Pleasure, for Lust knows not where Necessity ends.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
difficulty, exact, lust, lusted, lusting, lust after, measure, necessity
«He that's secure is not safe.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Safety
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