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Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Benjamin Franklin

People

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

Lost time is never found again.

Benjamin Franklin

Time

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

Benjamin Franklin

Wrong

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.

Benjamin Franklin

Deeds

Reputation

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

Benjamin Franklin

Man

It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

Benjamin Franklin

Wealth

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

Benjamin Franklin

Habits

Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.

Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.

Benjamin Franklin

Fish

Guests

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.