Benjamin Franklin - The Way to Wealth (1758)

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Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden,
but it is forbidden because it is hurtful.

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Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.

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The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse.

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

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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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Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise." He planned his routine around waking up at 5 a.m. and asking himself "What good shall I do this day?

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Disdain the chain, preserve your freedom; and maintain your independency: be industrious and free; be frugal and free.

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If we are industrious, we shall never starve; for, at the workingman's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter. Nor will the bailiff or the constable enter, for industry pays debts, while despair increaseth them.

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At the workingman's house hunger looks in but dares not enter.

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Then plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep.

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If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

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Think What You Do When You Run in Debt: You Give to Another Power over Your Liberty

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Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.

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A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.

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Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it.

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Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright.

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Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.

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If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.

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Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy.

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I say it is impossible that so sensible a people [citizens of Paris], under such circumstances, should have lived so long by the smoky, unwholesome, and enormously expensive light of candles, if they had really known that they might have had as much pure light of the sun for nothing.

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Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him.

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A traveller should have a hog's nose, a deer's legs, and an ass's back.

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So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

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