Quote by Benjamin Franklin
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything els

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. – Benjamin Franklin

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It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man. – Benjamin Franklin

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He who excuses himself accuses himself. – Gabriel Meurier, Trésor des sentences

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To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is a perversity often indulged in by artists, husbands, intellectuals — and critics of the Womens Movement. – Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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Your letter of excuses has arrived. I receive the letter but do not admit the excuses except in courtesy, as when a man treads on your toes and begs your pardon — the pardon is granted, but the joint aches, especially if there is a corn upon it. – Lord Byron

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How strange to use “You only live once” as an excuse to throw it away. – Bill Copeland

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