The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

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?

Well done is better than well said.

Well done is better than well said.

A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.

A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.

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

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

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?

In rivers and bad governments, the lightest things swim at the top

In rivers and bad governments, the lightest things swim at the top

No man ever was glorious, who was not laborious.

No man ever was glorious, who was not laborious.

There will be sleeping enough in the grave

There will be sleeping enough in the grave

Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.

Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something...

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something...

Read much, but not many books.

Read much, but not many books.

The thrifty maxim of the wary Dutch, Is to save all the Money they can...

The thrifty maxim of the wary Dutch, Is to save all the Money they can...

Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices

Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices

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...

Mine is better than ours.

Mine is better than ours.

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

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

I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people.

I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people.

It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I...

It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I...

I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.

Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.