Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.

Quote by Benjamin Franklin

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The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy.

Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy.

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I...

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I...

To err is human, to repent divine, to persist devilish

To err is human, to repent divine, to persist devilish

Tell a miser he's rich, and a woman she's old, you'll get no money of...

Tell a miser he's rich, and a woman she's old, you'll get no money of...

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...

Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is...

Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is...

Force shites upon Reason's Back.

Force shites upon Reason's Back.

In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

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

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

Humility makes great men twice honorable

Humility makes great men twice honorable

Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.

Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.

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.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce...

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce...

He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.

He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows...

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows...