Quote by Benjamin Franklin
Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He tha

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. – 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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All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. In my opinion, there never was a good war or a bad peace. When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration? – Benjamin Franklin

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All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse. – Benjamin Franklin

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When we look on the characters of man and woman, we cannot but perceive that neither is perfect by itself, but that each needs the other for its perfection…. Hence the one must be softened by tender emotions, and the other strengthened by firmness. – Frederick A. Rauch, Psychology; or, A View of the Human Soul: Including Anthropo

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Jones Very is gone into the multitude as solitary as Jesus. In dismissing him, I seem to have discharged an arrow into the heart of Society. Wherever that young enthusiast goes, he will astonish and disconcert men by dividing for them the cloud that covers the gulf in man. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1838 journal, about Jones Very

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To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions. – Marcus Aurelius

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What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine. – Susan Sontag

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The best math lesson we can teach college students this year is to subtract a tuition increase and benefit from the dividends of higher education. – Jodi Rell

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Be very clear as to what your dream is. Nowadays it is fairly certain that 90 percent of all actors really just want to be rich and famous as the solution to all that ails. – Dirk Benedict

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