13 Quotes by Benjamin Franklin about years


  • Author Benjamin Franklin
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    When you incline to have new clothes, look first well over the old ones, and see if you cannot shift with them another year, either by scouring, mending, or even patching if necessary. Remember, a patch on your coat, and money in your pocket, is better and more creditable, than a writ on your back, and no money to take it off.

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  • Author Benjamin Franklin
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    Women are books, and men the readers be, Who sometimes in those books erratas see; Yet oft the reader's raptured with each line, Fair print and paper, fraught with sense divine; Tho' some, neglectful, seldom care to read, And faithful wives no more than bibles heed. Are women books? says Hodge, then would mine were An Almanack, to change her every year.

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  • Author Benjamin Franklin
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    Here you would know, and enjoy, what prosperity will way of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with a thousand years.

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  • Author Benjamin Franklin
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    He that spends a Groat a day idly, spends idly above 6 l. a year, which is the Price of using 100 l.

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