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Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin föddes den 17 januar 1706 och dog den 17 april 1790 - amerikansk statsman, författare, uppfinnare och naturvetenskapsman. Uppfann bl.a. åskledaren.
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A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone.

Ill Customs & bad Advice are seldom forgotten.

Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no persuasion move thee, to do anything which thou knowest to be evil; so shalt thou always live jollity; for a good conscience is a continual Christmas.

Games lubricate the body and the mind.

Sport

Drink does not drown care, but waters it, and makes it grow faster.

Nine men in ten are would be suicides.

Selvmord

There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their conquered neighbors. This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is generally cheating. The third by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle, wrought by the hand of God in his favor, as a reward for his innocent life and his virtuous industry.

Don't think to hunt two hares with one dog

Let honesty and industry be thy constant companions, and spend one penny less than thy clear gains; then shall thy pocket begin to thrive; creditors will not insult, nor want oppress, nor hungerness bite, nor nakedness freeze thee

Affärslivet

Here comes Courage! that seized the lion absent, and run away from the present mouse

He that sells upon Credit, expects to lose 5 per Cent. by bad Debts; therefore he charges, on all he sells upon Credit, an Advance that shall make up that Deficiency.

Then plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep

She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.

Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough

Jag hoppas ... att människorna till slut, då de kallar sig förnuftiga varelser, kommer ha så mycket förnuft och sunt förstånd att lösa sina tvister utan att skära halsen av varandra; ty enligt min mening har det aldrig funnits ett gott krig eller en dålig fred.

I hope... that mankind will at length, as they call themselves reasonable creatures, have reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats; for in my opinion there never was a good war, or a bad peace.

Menneskeheten

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