Originality is the art of concealing your sources

Quote by Benjamin Franklin

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Never praise your Cider, Horse, or Bedfellow

Never praise your Cider, Horse, or Bedfellow

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall...

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall...

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Trouble knocked on the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away.

Trouble knocked on the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away.

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?

If you desire many things, many things will seem few.

If you desire many things, many things will seem few.

Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.

Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.

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?

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

God works wonders now and then; behold a lawyer, an honest man.

God works wonders now and then; behold a lawyer, an honest man.

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand...

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand...

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man...

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man...

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.

There is no little enemy

There is no little enemy

Lend money to an enemy, and thou will gain him, to a friend and thou...

Lend money to an enemy, and thou will gain him, to a friend and thou...

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

A coxcomb is one whom simpletons believe to be a man of merit.

A coxcomb is one whom simpletons believe to be a man of merit.

Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance

Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance

Be neither silly, nor cunning, but wise

Be neither silly, nor cunning, but wise

Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip and Germans,...

Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip and Germans,...