82 Quotes by Benjamin Franklin about men
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Is there any thing Men take more pains about than to render themselves unhappy?
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When you speak to a man, look on his eyes; when he speaks to you, look on his mouth.
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The English love an insult. It's their only test of a man's sincerity.
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So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.
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Man is a tool-making animal
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Whether a Commonwealth suffers more by hypocritical pretenders to religion or by the openly profane? The most dangerous hypocrite in a Commonwealth is one who leaves the gospel for the sake of the law. A man compounded of law and gospel is able to cheat a whole country with his religion and then destroy them under color of law.
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A man is sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps through fear of being thought to have but little.
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Many estates are spent in the getting, since women for tea forsake spinning and knitting, and men for punch forsake hewing and splitting.
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Who judges best of a Man, his Enemies or himself?
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