Quote by Benjamin Franklin
I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with

I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge of her faults, and whether she has the virtues I imagine she has? Answer. Commend her among her female acquaintances. – Benjamin Franklin

Other quotes by Benjamin Franklin

The greatest thing about the internet is that you can quote something and just totally make up the source. – Benjamin Franklin

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Internet
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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. – Benjamin Franklin

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Hypocrisy
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He who puts up with insult invites injury. – Yiddish Proverb

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Backbite. To speak of a man as you find him when he cant find you. – Ambrose Bierce

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Some people should use a glue stick instead of ChapStick. – Author unknown

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I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top. – English professor, Ohio University

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Does “anal-retentive” have a hyphen? – Alison Bechdel, 1990 Dykes to Watch Out For Calendar (Thanks, Chelsea)

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In the nineteenth century men lost their fear of God and acquired a fear of microbes. – Author Unknown

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Medical

Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together. – Jack Kerouac

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