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If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad.

—  Benjamin Franklin

To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girlfriends.

—  Benjamin Franklin

To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.

—  Benjamin Franklin

Nothing gives an author so much pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors.

—  Benjamin Franklin

It is the eyes of other people that ruin us. If all but myself were blind, I should want neither a fine house nor fine furniture.

—  Benjamin Franklin

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money.

—  Benjamin Franklin

The most acceptable service of God is doing good to man.

—  Benjamin Franklin

Be at war with your vices; at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

—  Benjamin Franklin

A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather.

—  Benjamin Franklin

You can not pluck roses without fear of thorns, Nor enjoy a fair wife without danger of horns.

—  Benjamin Franklin