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He that is good for making ___ is seldom good for anything else.
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Your argument is ___, nothing but ___.
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Those who would give up essential ___, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither ___ nor safety.
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___ often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.
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Whatever is begun in anger ends in ___.
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Every man has a right to be conceited until he is ___.
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___ is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.
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Be at war with your ___, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
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Fish and ___ smell in three days.
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Never ruin an apology with an ___.
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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 ___.
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If we do not ___ together, we will all ___ separately.
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Beware of the young doctor and the old ___.
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The absent are never without fault, nor the present without ___.
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If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his ___.
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Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in ___.
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As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle ___.
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The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ___.
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Fatigue is the best ___.
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Trickery and treachery are the practices of fools that have not the wits enough to be ___.
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Little strokes fell great ___.
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To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at ___.
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Anger is never without a ___, but seldom with a good one.
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To lengthen thy life, lessen thy ___.
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A brother may not be a ___, but a ___ will always be a brother.
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To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors ___.
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An investment in ___ always pays the best interest.
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Creditors have better ___ than debtors.
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Either write something worth reading or do something worth ___.
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If passion drives you, let reason hold the ___.
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___ done is better than ___ said.
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God heals and the doctor takes the ___.
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Three may keep a ___, if two of them are dead.
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Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the ___.
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Constant ___ is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.
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Quotes
Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Benjamin Franklin?
→ Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.
→ Promises may fit the friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.
→ Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
→ You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.
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Pick the quote attributed to Benjamin Franklin.
→ The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
→ He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.
→ It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
→ Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.
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Select the quotation attributed to Benjamin Franklin.
→ Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.
→ A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather.
→ Being ignorant is not as much a shame as being unwilling to learn.
→ The soul has been given its own ears to hear things the mind does not understand.
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One of these may be attributed to Benjamin Franklin. Which one?
→ Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
→ It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
→ Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.
→ Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.
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Which one of these belongs to Benjamin Franklin?
→ There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
→ Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones — with ingratitude.
→ A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.
→ The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.
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Can you identify the right quote belonging to Benjamin Franklin?
→ Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
→ Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave till it gets to shore. You need more help than you know.
→ Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
→ Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.
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Guess which of these quotes is attributed to Benjamin Franklin.
→ Clean your finger before you point at my spots.
→ While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
→ It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
→ The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.
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One of the following quotations belongs to Benjamin Franklin. Which one?
→ Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.
→ While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
→ He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.
→ Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
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Can you guess which one of these belongs to Benjamin Franklin?
→ A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
→ We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
→ A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
→ The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
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Try to identify the quote attributed to Benjamin Franklin.
→ Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones — with ingratitude.
→ He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.
→ A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.
→ Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.
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Looks like Benjamin Franklin is the author of one of these.
→ Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.
→ Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.
→ Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.
→ Being ignorant is not as much a shame as being unwilling to learn.
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Pick the one quotation belonging to Benjamin Franklin.
→ The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
→ You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?
→ Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don’t claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.
→ Clean your finger before you point at my spots.
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Which one should be attributed to Benjamin Franklin?
→ The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
→ Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires.
→ Life's Tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
→ Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
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Can you identify which quote belongs to Benjamin Franklin?
→ The beginning is the most important part of the work.
→ Who waits until circumstances completely favor his undertaking will never accomplish anything.
→ Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
→ Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.
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Select the quote belonging to Benjamin Franklin.
→ There never was a good knife made of bad steel.
→ Only great minds can afford a simple style.
→ A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.
→ Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.
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Choose which quotation belongs to Benjamin Franklin.
→ A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.
→ Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
→ A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
→ There is always something new out of Africa.
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Select the quote, which is attributable to Benjamin Franklin.
→ Setting too good an example is a kind of slander seldom forgiven.
→ True dignity abides with him only, who, in the silent hour of inward thought, can still suspect, and still revere himself, in lowliness of heart.
→ Flow down and down in always widening rings of being.
→ Where destiny blunders, human prudence will not avail.
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Identify the quotation belonging to Benjamin Franklin?
→ Truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as self-evident.
→ Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason – they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
→ Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
→ Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.
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One of the following quotes belongs to Benjamin Franklin. Pick one.
→ Lost time is never found again.
→ The unexamined life is not worth living.
→ Liberty, equality – bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.
→ Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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Guess the right quote, which belongs to Benjamin Franklin.
→ It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
→ Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.
→ One today is worth two tomorrows.
→ Half the truth is often a great lie.
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Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Benjamin Franklin?
→ Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.
→ Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones — with ingratitude.
→ Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.
→ Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.
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Pick the quote attributed to Benjamin Franklin.
→ Love makes mutes of those who habitually speak most fluently.
→ Sudden love takes the longest time to be cured.
→ Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
→ A good example is the best sermon.
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Select the quotation attributed to Benjamin Franklin.
→ Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.
→ It takes two to speak the truth--one to speak and the other to hear.
→ The discontented man finds no easy chair.
→ The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.
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One of these may be attributed to Benjamin Franklin. Which one?
→ In wine there is wisdom; in beer there is freedom; in water there is bacteria.
→ Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.
→ The thought of our past years in me doth breed perpetual benedictions.
→ Respond to every call that excites your spirit.
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Which one of these belongs to Benjamin Franklin?
→ Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.
→ A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.
→ Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.
→ True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
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Can you identify the right quote belonging to Benjamin Franklin?
→ On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world.
→ There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
→ Two purposes in human nature rule. Self-love to urge, and reason to restrain.
→ For age and want save while you may, No morning sun lasts a whole day.
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Guess which of these quotes is attributed to Benjamin Franklin.
→ Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
→ Promises may fit the friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.
→ For the best return on your money pour your purse into your head.
→ No one reaches a high position without daring.
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One of the following quotations belongs to Benjamin Franklin. Which one?
→ Rather go to bed without dinner than rise in debt.
→ If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail.
→ These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.
→ Don't make the body do what the spirit does best and don't put a big load on the spirit that the body could easily carry.
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Can you guess which one of these belongs to Benjamin Franklin?
→ Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
→ Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
→ At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.
→ Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
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Try to identify the quote attributed to Benjamin Franklin.
→ Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
→ Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.
→ Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
→ Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
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Looks like Benjamin Franklin is the author of one of these.
→ It is not every question that deserves an answer.
→ Every tub must stand on its own bottom.
→ Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.
→ Half the truth is often a great lie.
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Pick the one quotation belonging to Benjamin Franklin.
→ There are two sides to every question.
→ For the best return on your money pour your purse into your head.
→ Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
→ Appear weak when you are strong and strong when you are weak.
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Which one should be attributed to Benjamin Franklin?
→ No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
→ Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
→ Grace in women has more effect than beauty.
→ Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What’s a sundial in the shade?
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Can you identify which quote belongs to Benjamin Franklin?
→ Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.
→ Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.
→ Positively, the best thing a man can have to do is nothing.
→ Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
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Select the quote belonging to Benjamin Franklin.
→ Happiness depends upon ourselves.
→ You may delay, but time will not.
→ To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.
→ To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
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Choose which quotation belongs to Benjamin Franklin.
→ Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
→ Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
→ What power has law where only money rules?
→ I was never less alone than when by myself.
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Select the quote, which is attributable to Benjamin Franklin.
→ Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
→ There are three things that are extremely hard: steel, a diamond and to know oneself.
→ If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
→ Delay is preferable to error.
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Identify the quotation belonging to Benjamin Franklin?
→ When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
→ Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
→ What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
→ There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
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One of the following quotes belongs to Benjamin Franklin. Pick one.
→ The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.
→ Beauty will save the world.
→ Drive thy business or it will drive thee.
→ In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
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Guess the right quote, which belongs to Benjamin Franklin.
→ The wisest men follow their own direction.
→ You can fool some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.
→ A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.
→ It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Benjamin Franklin?
→ Clean your finger before you point at my spots.
→ We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
→ Reply to wit with gravity, and to gravity with wit.
→ None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
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Pick the quote attributed to Benjamin Franklin.
→ The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
→ Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires.
→ Genius without Education is like Silver in the Mine.
→ Life's Tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
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Select the quotation attributed to Benjamin Franklin.
→ It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
→ Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones — with ingratitude.
→ It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
→ We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
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One of these may be attributed to Benjamin Franklin. Which one?
→ What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
→ There are so few who can grow old with a good grace.
→ Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.
→ Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
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Which one of these belongs to Benjamin Franklin?
→ An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold him.
→ The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
→ While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
→ Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.
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Can you identify the right quote belonging to Benjamin Franklin?
→ It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
→ Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.
→ A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.
→ It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
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Guess which of these quotes is attributed to Benjamin Franklin.
→ Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
→ Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.
→ Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires.
→ Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error.
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One of the following quotations belongs to Benjamin Franklin. Which one?
→ Positively, the best thing a man can have to do is nothing.
→ The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
→ When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.
→ For age and want save while you may, No morning sun lasts a whole day.
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Can you guess which one of these belongs to Benjamin Franklin?
→ Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
→ The brain is wider than the sky.
→ Fortune favors the bold.
→ He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
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Try to identify the quote attributed to Benjamin Franklin.
→ Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good.
→ He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.
→ Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
→ Our wealth is often a snare to ourselves, and always a temptation to others.
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Looks like Benjamin Franklin is the author of one of these.
→ They say coffee is a slow poison. Slow it must be indeed for I have sipped it for seventy-five years.
→ Money is like manure; it’s not worth a thing unless it’s spread around.
→ I am in the prime of senility.
→ Men willingly believe what they wish.
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Pick the one quotation belonging to Benjamin Franklin.
→ I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.
→ Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
→ Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
→ Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
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Which one should be attributed to Benjamin Franklin?
→ A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather.
→ When you do things from your soul, you feel a river of joy within you.
→ Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
→ It is easy to sit up and take notice. What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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