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Benjamin Franklin: top 100 quotes
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Coffee (n.) is proof that God loves us and wants us to pay attention.
Coffee (n.) excites cheerfulness without intoxication; and the pleasing flow of spirits which it occasions...is never followed by sadness, languor or debility.
An Orator (n.) is a person with a flood of words and a drop of reason.
John Adams (n.) is always an honest man, often a great one, but sometimes absolutely mad.
The Citizen's (n.) first responsibility is to question authority.
Life (n.) is something one should make the most of — a long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough.
Marriage (n.) is about forgiveness. If you can bear your own faults, then why not a fault in one's spouse?
Marriage (n.) is where one should keep one's eyes wide open before it and half shut afterwards.
Happiness (n.) is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day.
Religion (n.) is a thing which to talk against is to unchain a tiger. The beast let loose may worry his deliverer.