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1155 quotes from Benjamin Franklin: 'Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.', 'Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.', and 'Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.'
Latest quotes from interviews "My List of Virtues contain'd at first but twelve: But a Quaker Friend having kindly inform'd me that I was generally thought proud; that my Pride show'd itself frequently in Conversation; that I was not content with being in the right when discussing any Point, but was overbearing & rather insolent; of which he convinc'd me by mentioning several Instances; - I determined endeavouring to cure myself ..., and I added Humility to my List, giving an extensive ...
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Aug 15, 2022 · Benjamin Franklin Quotes. The wit of conversation consists more in finding it in others, than showing a great deal yourself. He who goes out of your company pleased with his own facetiousness and ingenuity, will the sooner come into it again.
Jun 12, 2019 · Benjamin Franklin was an American polymath and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Franklin was the main creator, printer, political scholar, politician, Freemason, postmaster, scientist, inventor, humorist, urban lobbyist, statesman, and ambassador.
Jun 29, 2024 · These famous and lesser-known quotes by Benjamin Franklin, one of America's Founding Fathers, cover liberty, wisdom, integrity and so much more.
Jul 20, 2024 · If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed. "Apology for Printers" (1730); later in Benjamin Franklin's Autobiographical Writings (1945) edited by Carl Van Doren; Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. "On True Happiness", Pennsylvania Gazette (20 November 1735). Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government...
Jul 2, 2022 · Benjamin Franklin — Famous Quotes. Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as publick Liberty, without Freedom of Speech. — Benjamin Franklin, from “Silence Dogood” letters, printed in the New England Courant, July 9, 1722.
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Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) was a Founding Father of the American republic, an author, inventor, and diplomat whose life and ideas came to be identified with the new American nation. He wrote the best selling Poor Richard’s Almanac (1733), a posthumously published Autobiography, and many articles advocating American independence from Great Britain. From 1776-1785 he was the American ambassador to France, and from 1785-1788 he was governor of Pennsylvania.
