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

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There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government. – Benjamin Franklin

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If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality. – Benjamin Franklin

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

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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go. – Oscar Wilde

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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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I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws. – Charles Baudelaire

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