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Benjamin Franklin Quotes

«What pains our Justice takes his faults to hide, With half that pains sure he might cure 'em quite»
«You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?»
«He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.»
«The learned fool writes nonsense in better language that the unlearned - but it's still nonsense.»
«The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.»
«If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.»
«A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.»
«Genius without education is like silver in the mine.»
«And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief,Depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.»
«There is much money given to be laught at, though the purchasers don't know it; witness A's fine horse, and B's fine house»