“A man being sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps through fear of being thought to have but little.”
Benjamin Franklin
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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 wise man draws more advantage from his enemies, than the fool from his friends.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“Any man more right than his neighbors, constitutes a majority of one already.”
— Henry David Thoreau Primary source“I thought she was probably a little crazy. It was all right if she was. I did not care what I was getting into.”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source“Let him think I am more man than I am and I will be so.”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary sourcePride Money Frugality Generousity