Benjamin Franklin Saying


	Benjamin Franklin Saying
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7-31-2007 6:52 PM
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/354b4b60-e6bf-41c2-906c-b865e23f15cb/C028DC5A-7D88-43DC-9F6F-980ADE01A39E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://usinfo.state.gov/scv/Archive/2006/Jan/05-140405.html" href="http://usinfo.state.gov/scv/Archive/2006/Jan/05-140405.html" style="font-size: 11px;">usinfo.state.gov</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://usinfo.state.gov/scv/Archive/2006/Jan/05-140405.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/usinfo.state.gov/img/7A8A4268-2121-491E-9743-40D168424F24" alt="portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Justus Chevillet (engraver)" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://usinfo.state.gov/scv/Archive/2006/Jan/05-140405.html"><P>Benjamin Franklin’s common sense wit and wisdom continue to be quotable into the 21<SUP>st</SUP> century.  Many of these quotations originally appeared in his yearly <I>Poor Richard’s Almanac</I>, which was published between 1732 and 1757.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://usinfo.state.gov/scv/Archive/2006/Jan/05-140405.html"><P>* Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://usinfo.state.gov/scv/Archive/2006/Jan/05-140405.html"><P>* He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://usinfo.state.gov/scv/Archive/2006/Jan/05-140405.html"><P>* There never was a good war nor a bad peace.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://usinfo.state.gov/scv/Archive/2006/Jan/05-140405.html"><P>* Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://usinfo.state.gov/scv/Archive/2006/Jan/05-140405.html"><P>* To err is human, to repent divine, to persist devilish.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://usinfo.state.gov/scv/Archive/2006/Jan/05-140405.html"><P>* Necessity never made a good bargain.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://usinfo.state.gov/scv/Archive/2006/Jan/05-140405.html"><P>* All would live long, but none would be old. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://usinfo.state.gov/scv/Archive/2006/Jan/05-140405.html"><P>* They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://usinfo.state.gov/scv/Archive/2006/Jan/05-140405.html"><P>* Fish and visitors smell in three days. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://usinfo.state.gov/scv/Archive/2006/Jan/05-140405.html"><P>* Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://usinfo.state.gov/scv/Archive/2006/Jan/05-140405.html"><P>* Beware of the young doctor and the old barber. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; 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