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Quote by Benjamin Franklin
Many estates are spent in the getting, since women for tea forsake

Many estates are spent in the getting, since women for tea forsake spinning and knitting, and men for punch forsake hewing and splitting. – Benjamin Franklin

Other quotes by Benjamin Franklin

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up. – Benjamin Franklin

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Morning
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Benjamin Franklin
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A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors. – Benjamin Franklin

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Marriage
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Benjamin Franklin
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Needlework
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Memories are stitched with love. – Author Unknown

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Needlework

Quilters never cut corners. – Author Unknown

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Needlework

Veni, Vidi, Velcro. I came, I saw, I stuck around. – Author Unknown

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Needlework

Methinks it is a token of healthy and gentle characteristics, when women of high thoughts and accomplishments love to sew; especially as they are never more at home with their own hearts than while so occupied. – Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Marble Faun, 1859

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Needlework

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Map out your future – but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip. – Jon Bon Jovi

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I dont know how I got to this point but it must be as a result of everything that has come before so if I were to change something, I might not be at this point now. – William Shatner

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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty. – Edgar Allan Poe

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Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love. – Mason Cooley

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