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Quote by Benjamin Franklin
If a man could have half his wishes, he would double his troubles.

If a man could have half his wishes, he would double his troubles. – Benjamin Franklin

Other quotes by Benjamin Franklin

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first. – Benjamin Franklin

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It is easier for me to see everything as one thing than to see one thing as one thing. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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The bat hanging upside down laughs at the topsy-turvy world. – Japanese Proverb

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Sometimes the littlest inquiries produce the biggest results. – Terri Guillemets

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The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the universe. – Philip W. Anderson, “More Is Different,” Science Magazine

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Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is. – Isaac Mizrahi

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In larger things we are convivial; what causes trouble is the trivial. – Richard Armour

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Why pay money to have your family tree traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you. – Author Unknown

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When my dad was badly weakened by the flu and my mom wanted to call an ambulance to take him to the emergency room, he wouldnt go unless he could shave first and change into a nice shirt and a pair of slacks. – Rich Lowry

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