“He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.”
Benjamin Franklin
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Primary source)
A masterclass in self-invention, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin charts one man’s rise from obscurity to influence, offering timeless lessons in ambition, discipline, and civic virtue—written with wit, candor, and the unmistakable clarity of an original American mind.
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“Experience keeps a dear school, yet fools will learn in no other.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“Remember that Time is Money.”
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“The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done for ever.”
— Henry David Thoreau Primary source“Well done is better than well said.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“Let him think I am more man than I am and I will be so.”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source