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Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.
Benjamin Franklin
Fault
Tomorrow
To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.
Benjamin Franklin
Succeed
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
Benjamin Franklin
Life
To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.
Benjamin Franklin
Faith
Time is money.
Benjamin Franklin
Money
Time
Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.
Benjamin Franklin
Idleness
Trouble
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin
Liberty
Safety
There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
Benjamin Franklin
Peace
War
There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
Benjamin Franklin
Time
Man
There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
Benjamin Franklin
Government
People
Dishonesty
There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.
Benjamin Franklin
Being
Man
May
Result
Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.
Benjamin Franklin
Business
Wisdom
Execution
Projects
Public
Trouble
When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.
Benjamin Franklin
Forget
Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
Benjamin Franklin
Love
Marriage
Will
Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.
Benjamin Franklin
Sense