BiographyType: Politician Born: 17 januar 1706. Died: 17.april 1790. Franklin was born in 1706 at Boston. He was the tenth son of a soap and candlemaker. He received some formal education but was principally self-taught. After serving an apprenticeship to his father between the ages of 10 and 12, he went to work for his half-brother James, a printer. |
I'd rather be a pessimist because then I can only be pleasantly surprised.
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives.
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that.
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.
Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.
The securest place is a prison cell, but there is no liberty
He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.
People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both
Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes
Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.
For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head.
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