Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

Quote by Benjamin Franklin

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

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

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

Hope of gain lessens pain.

Hope of gain lessens pain.

Rules to find out a fit Measure of Meat and Drink.

Rules to find out a fit Measure of Meat and Drink.

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

Each year one vicious habit rooted out, in time might make the worst man good...

Each year one vicious habit rooted out, in time might make the worst man good...

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

Drink does not drown care, but waters it, and makes it grow faster.

Drink does not drown care, but waters it, and makes it grow faster.

He that drinks fast pays slow

He that drinks fast pays slow

When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.

When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.

Necessity never made a good bargain.

Necessity never made a good bargain.

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of...

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of...

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad...

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad...

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

He that can compose himself, is wiser than he that composes books.

He that can compose himself, is wiser than he that composes books.

Necessity never made a good bargain

Necessity never made a good bargain

The only thing more expensive than education is ignorance.

The only thing more expensive than education is ignorance.

Education is transformational. It changes lives. That is why people work so hard to become...

Education is transformational. It changes lives. That is why people work so hard to become...

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you...

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you...

Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by...

Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by...