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In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
Benjamin Franklin
Nature
Cookery
Improvement
Mankind
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
Reading
Worth
Writing
If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
Benjamin Franklin
Money
Value
If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.
Benjamin Franklin
Love
In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
Benjamin Franklin
Death
Nothing
Taxes
World
If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
Benjamin Franklin
Time
If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.
Benjamin Franklin
Man
If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.
Benjamin Franklin
Man
Wishes
I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.
Benjamin Franklin
Name
I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.
Benjamin Franklin
Life
Beginning
Faults
First
I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.
Benjamin Franklin
Eating
Hunger
If you desire many things, many things will seem few.
Benjamin Franklin
Desire
Will
Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
Benjamin Franklin
Laws
Fatigue is the best pillow.
Benjamin Franklin
Fatigue
Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.
Benjamin Franklin
Happiness
Marriage
Man
State
Will