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

Quote by Benjamin Franklin

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Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?

Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.

To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.

Who says Jack is not generous? He is always fond of giving, and cares not...

Who says Jack is not generous? He is always fond of giving, and cares not...

Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy.

Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy.

Do good to thy friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him.

Do good to thy friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him.

He that rises late must trot all day.

He that rises late must trot all day.

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...

With regard to future bliss, I cannot help imagining that multitudes of the zealously orthodox...

With regard to future bliss, I cannot help imagining that multitudes of the zealously orthodox...

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of...

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of...

Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and...

Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and...

Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

Little boats should keep near shore

Little boats should keep near shore

The first mistake in public business is the going into it.

The first mistake in public business is the going into it.

Little strokes fell great oaks.

Little strokes fell great oaks.

Work while it is called today, for you know not how much you will be...

Work while it is called today, for you know not how much you will be...

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

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

Pretty women make us BUY beer. Ugly women make us DRINK beer.

Pretty women make us BUY beer. Ugly women make us DRINK beer.

First, the baby loves mother's milk; second, he learns of his mother and father; third,...

First, the baby loves mother's milk; second, he learns of his mother and father; third,...