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If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.
Service
Benjamin Franklin

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If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.
Persuasion
Benjamin Franklin

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If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.
Age and Aging
Benjamin Franklin

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In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
Glutton
Benjamin Franklin

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In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.
Faith
Benjamin Franklin

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In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
Certainty
Benjamin Franklin

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Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.
Wealth
Benjamin Franklin

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It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
Habit
Benjamin Franklin

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It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance.
Repentance
Benjamin Franklin

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It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
Desire
Benjamin Franklin

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It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
Work
Benjamin Franklin

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Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.
Marriage
Benjamin Franklin

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Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.
Children
Benjamin Franklin

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late
Life and Living
Benjamin Franklin

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Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
Pleasure
Benjamin Franklin

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Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.
Age and Aging
Benjamin Franklin

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Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.
Death and Dying
Benjamin Franklin

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Most fools think they are only ignorant.
Fools and Foolishness
Benjamin Franklin

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Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones -- with ingratitude.
Gratitude
Benjamin Franklin

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Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
Procrastination
Benjamin Franklin

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Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
Wives
Benjamin Franklin

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Nothing is more fatal to health than an over care of it.
Health
Benjamin Franklin

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Nothing preaches better than the act.
Example
Benjamin Franklin

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One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.
Marriage
Benjamin Franklin

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Our necessities never equal our wants.
Want
Benjamin Franklin

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun