"Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well."

Franklin, Benjamin on reputation
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"Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least you will, by such conduct, stand the best chance for such consequences."

Franklin, Benjamin on rules
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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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"Love well, whip well."

Franklin, Benjamin on parents and parenting
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"Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities."

Franklin, Benjamin on necessity   

"God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man."

Franklin, Benjamin on law and lawyers
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"The things which hurt, instruct."

Franklin, Benjamin on learning
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"A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave."

Franklin, Benjamin on laziness
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"Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never."

Franklin, Benjamin on leisure
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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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"Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame."

Franklin, Benjamin on anger
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"Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak."

Franklin, Benjamin on manners   

"One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued."

Franklin, Benjamin on marriage
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"When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue."

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

Franklin, Benjamin on self-observation
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