“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 (verified)
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“Experience keeps a dear school, yet fools will learn in no other.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“Remember that Time is Money.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“For age and want save while you may; no morning sun lasts a whole day.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“Diligence is the mother of good luck.”
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“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)“One loses everything when one loses one’s sense of humor.”
— Ayn Rand (verified)“Grief too will make us idealists.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)“It was a bitter moment. Defeat is one thing; disgrace is another.”
— Winston Churchill (verified)