Author Profile
Benjamin Franklin
1706 – 1790 • American • Politician
215
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Showing 215 quotesWhen men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.— Benjamin Franklin
Where there is a free government, and the people make their own laws by their representatives, I see no injustice in their obliging one another to take their own paper money.— Benjamin Franklin
I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.— Benjamin Franklin
From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books. Pleased with the 'Pilgrim's Progress,' my first collection was of John Bunyan's works in separate little volumes.— Benjamin Franklin