Poor Richard quotes

Poor Richard

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Benjamin Franklin Inventor, Statesman, Author

"Fear God, and your enemies will fear you."

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Benjamin Franklin Inventor, Statesman, Author

"He that best understands the world, least likes it"

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Benjamin Franklin Inventor, Statesman, Author

"Men and Melons are hard to know."

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Benjamin Franklin Inventor, Statesman, Author

"He that speaks much, is much mistaken."

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Benjamin Franklin Inventor, Statesman, Author

"It is better to take many injuries than to give one."

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Benjamin Franklin Inventor, Statesman, Author

Poor Richard

"Observe all men, thyself most."

Men Poor Richard Self Observation

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Benjamin Franklin Inventor, Statesman, Author

Poor Richard

"Creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times."

Poor Richard Debtors Creditors

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Benjamin Franklin Inventor, Statesman, Author

Poor Richard

"The thrifty maxim of the wary Dutch, Is to save all the Money they can touch"

Poor Richard Dutch Thrifty

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Benjamin Franklin Inventor, Statesman, Author

Poor Richard

"If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality."

Ifs Time Poor Richard

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Benjamin Franklin Inventor, Statesman, Author

Poor Richard

"The cat in gloves catches no mice."

Cat Gloves Poor Richard

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Benjamin Franklin Inventor, Statesman, Author

Poor Richard

"Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage."

Love Marriage Poor Richard

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Benjamin Franklin Inventor, Statesman, Author

Poor Richard

"When Wine enters, out goes the Truth."

Wine Poor Richard

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Benjamin Franklin Inventor, Statesman, Author

Poor Richard

"Bargaining has neither friends nor relations."

Relation Poor Richard Bargaining

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Benjamin Franklin Inventor, Statesman, Author

Poor Richard

"What signifies knowing the Names, if you know not the Natures of things."

Names Knowing Poor Richard

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Benjamin Franklin Inventor, Statesman, Author

Poor Richard

"If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself."

Responsibility Poor Richard Faithful Servants

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Benjamin Franklin Inventor, Statesman, Author

Poor Richard

"The same man cannot be both Friend and Flatterer."

Men Flattery Poor Richard

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Benjamin Franklin Inventor, Statesman, Author

Poor Richard

"If you desire many things, many things will seem few."

Desire Seems Poor Richard

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Benjamin Franklin Inventor, Statesman, Author

Poor Richard

"Lying rides upon debt's back."

Lying Debt Poor Richard

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Benjamin Franklin Inventor, Statesman, Author

Poor Richard

"Pay what you owe and you'll know what's your own."

Knows Pay Poor Richard

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Benjamin Franklin Inventor, Statesman, Author

Poor Richard

"The used key is always bright."

Use Keys Poor Richard

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Benjamin Franklin Inventor, Statesman, Author

Poor Richard

"He that is rich need not live sparingly, and he that can live sparingly need not be rich."

Needs Rich Poor Richard

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Benjamin Franklin Inventor, Statesman, Author

Poor Richard

"Pardoning the Bad, is injuring the Good."

Justice Poor Richard

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Benjamin Franklin Inventor, Statesman, Author

Poor Richard

"Do not do that which you would not have known."

Leadership Known Poor Richard

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Benjamin Franklin Inventor, Statesman, Author

Poor Richard

"Would you live with ease, Do what you ought, and not what you please."

Please Ease Poor Richard

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Benjamin Franklin Inventor, Statesman, Author

Poor Richard

"The Sting of a reproach, is the Truth of it."

Poor Richard Reproach

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