"I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he first forms a good plan, and, cutting off all amusements or other employments that would divert his attention, make the execution of that same plan his sole study and business."

Franklin, Benjamin on planning
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"Necessity never made a good bargain."

Franklin, Benjamin on necessity
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"Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours."

Franklin, Benjamin on manners
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"Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them."

Franklin, Benjamin on argument
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"There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self."

Franklin, Benjamin on knowledge
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"Observe all men, thyself most."

Franklin, Benjamin on self-observation
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"We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid."

Franklin, Benjamin on stupidity
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"Remember that credit is money."

Franklin, Benjamin on credit
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"If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins."

Franklin, Benjamin on conflict
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"Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy."

Franklin, Benjamin on complaints and complaining   

"Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt."

Franklin, Benjamin on children
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"Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in."

Franklin, Benjamin on wives
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"Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it."

Franklin, Benjamin on wealth   

"If you would know the value of money try to borrow some."

Franklin, Benjamin on borrowing
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"Never confuse motion with action."

Franklin, Benjamin on action
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"Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning."

Franklin, Benjamin on action
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"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

Franklin, Benjamin on liberty
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"She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth."

Franklin, Benjamin on laughter
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"As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on death
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"Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on understanding
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"Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on authority
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"Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on experience
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"The proverb warns; Don't bite the hand that feeds you. But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself."

Szasz, Thomas on aid and assistance
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"It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets."

Hurd, Douglas on aid and assistance   

"Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him."

Horace on aid and assistance
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"One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for."

Plautus, Titus Maccius on aid and assistance
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"Diligence is the mother of good luck."

Franklin, Benjamin on diligence
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"Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship."

Franklin, Benjamin on expenditure
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"It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture."

Franklin, Benjamin on eyes
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"Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn."

Franklin, Benjamin on ignorance
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"Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life."

Franklin, Benjamin on happiness
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"Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days."

Franklin, Benjamin on guests
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"There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money."

Franklin, Benjamin on friends and friendship
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"To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible."

Franklin, Benjamin on freedom
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"Most fools think they are only ignorant."

Franklin, Benjamin on fools and foolishness
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"The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfortunes, and wisdom enough to manage the affairs of his neighbor."

Franklin, Benjamin on fools and foolishness
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"If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing."

Franklin, Benjamin on fame
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"Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else --and failing."

Radiguet, Raymond on originality   

"But it is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."

Melville, Herman on originality
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"We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on originality
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