A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

Quote by Benjamin Franklin

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It's easy to see, hard to foresee.

It's easy to see, hard to foresee.

How many observe Christ's birthday! How few his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep holidays...

How many observe Christ's birthday! How few his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep holidays...

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light

To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light

Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her...

Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her...

Why does the blind man's wife paint herself

Why does the blind man's wife paint herself

Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each...

Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each...

The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough...

The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough...

Fear to do ill, and you need fear else.

Fear to do ill, and you need fear else.

Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her.

Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her.

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest...

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest...

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information...

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information...

Again, He that sells upon Credit, asks a Price for what he sells, equivalent to...

Again, He that sells upon Credit, asks a Price for what he sells, equivalent to...

When youre finished changing, youre finished.

When youre finished changing, youre finished.

Be neither silly, nor cunning, but wise

Be neither silly, nor cunning, but wise

Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.

Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

We must hang together, or surely we shall hang separately.

We must hang together, or surely we shall hang separately.

When we lose one blessing, another is often, most unexpectedly, given in its place.

When we lose one blessing, another is often, most unexpectedly, given in its place.

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

The best time to make friends is before you need them.