Benjamin Franklin - Money Quotes

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Gaining money by my industry and frugality, I lived very agreeably....

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If we lose our Money, it gives us some Concern. If we are cheated or robb'd of it, we are angry: But Money lost may be found; what we are robb'd of may be restored: The Treasure of Time once lost, can never be recovered; yet we squander it as tho' 'twere nothing worth, or we had no Use for it....

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The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at five in the morning, or at nine at night, heard by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer; but if he sees you at the billiard-table, or hears your voice at a tavern, when you should be at work, he sends for his money the next day.

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Money is of a prolific generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more.

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There are three faithful friends—an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

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From a Child I was fond of Reading, and all the little Money that came into my Hands was ever laid out in Books.

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If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

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He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

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A man is sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps through fear of being thought to have but little.

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An honest Man will receive neither Money nor Praise that is not his due.

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There is much money given to be laughed at, though the purchasers don't know it; witness A.'s fine horse, and B.'s fine house.

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There is scarce a king in a hundred who would not, if he could, follow the example of Pharoah - get first all the people's money, then all their lands, and then make them and their children servants forever.

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The thrifty maxim of the wary Dutch, Is to save all the Money they can touch

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When you incline to have new clothes, look first well over the old ones, and see if you cannot shift with them another year, either by scouring, mending, or even patching if necessary. Remember, a patch on your coat, and money in your pocket, is better and more creditable, than a writ on your back, and no money to take it off.

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