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Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human knowledge will be rapid and discoveries made of which we have at present no conception. I begin to be almost sorry I was born so soon, since I cannot have the happiness of knowing what will be known a hundred years hence.

Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin's Popular Quotes

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

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We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.

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Let thy maid servant be faithful, strong, and homely.

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Proclaim not all though knowest, or all though owest.

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There seems to be three ways for a nation to acquire wealth: the first is by war...this is robbery; the second by commerce, which is generally cheati…

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La pereza anda tan despacio que la pobreza no tarda en alcanzarla.

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We can defer, yet time is most certainly not.

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Never contradict anybody.

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There are many roads to success, but only one sure road to failure; and that is to try to please everyone else.

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