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Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
Benjamin Franklin
Time
Gain
Leisure
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
Reading
Worth
Writing
Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.
Benjamin Franklin
Dress
Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.
Benjamin Franklin
Time
Habit
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
Benjamin Franklin
Life
Love
Time
Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.
Benjamin Franklin
Life
Time
At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.
Benjamin Franklin
Age
Judgment
Will
Wit
Years
Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
Benjamin Franklin
Enemies
Friends
Diligence is the mother of good luck.
Benjamin Franklin
Mother
Diligence
Luck
Creditors have better memories than debtors.
Benjamin Franklin
Memories
Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.
Benjamin Franklin
Men
Content
Discontent
Poor
Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
Benjamin Franklin
Death
Certainty
Nothing
Taxes
World
Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
Benjamin Franklin
Will
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
Benjamin Franklin
Being
Shame
Beauty and folly are old companions.
Benjamin Franklin
Beauty
Folly
Old