The importation of foreigners into a country that has as many inhabitants as the present employments and provisions for subsistence will bear, will be in the end no increase of people, unless the new comers have more industry and frugality than the natives, and then they will provide more subsistence, and increase in the country; but they will gradually eat the natives out. Nor is it necessary to bring in foreigners to fill up any occasional vacancy in a country for such vacancy will soon be filled by natural generation.
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid. - Benjamin Franklin
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
- Benjamin Franklin
We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately. - Benjamin Franklin
We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
Let thy maid servant be faithful, strong, and homely. - Benjamin Franklin
Let thy maid servant be faithful, strong, and homely.
Proclaim not all though knowest, or all though owest. - Benjamin Franklin
Proclaim not all though knowest, or all though owest.
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… - Benjamin Franklin
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…
La pereza anda tan despacio que la pobreza no tarda en alcanzarla. - Benjamin Franklin
La pereza anda tan despacio que la pobreza no tarda en alcanzarla.
We can defer, yet time is most certainly not. - Benjamin Franklin
We can defer, yet time is most certainly not.
Never contradict anybody. - Benjamin Franklin
Never contradict anybody.
There are many roads to success, but only one sure road to failure; and that is to try to please everyone else. - Benjamin Franklin
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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