“So convenient a thing is it to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do.”
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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“You know I don’t love any one but you. You shouldn’t mind because some one else loved me.”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source“It was a bitter moment. Defeat is one thing; disgrace is another.”
— Winston Churchill Primary source“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“One loses everything when one loses one’s sense of humor.”
— Ayn Rand Primary source