Benjamin Franklin Quotes

Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
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Three can keep a secret if two are dead.
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To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.
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Tomorrow every fault is to be amended; but tomorrow never comes.
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Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
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Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.
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The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
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The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.
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Biography

American politician, inventor and scientist. Lived 1706-90.