Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklinwas one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A renowned polymath, Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, freemason, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. As a scientist, he was a major figure in the American Enlightenment and the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity. As an inventor, he is known for the lightning rod, bifocals, and the Franklin stove, among other inventions. He facilitated many civic organizations, including...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth17 January 1706
CityBoston, MA
CountryUnited States of America
If you want to be loved, love and be loveable.
Beer is proof that God wants us to be happy
If you want to be rich, think of the savings and get them.
If you want a neat wife, choose her on a Saturday.
If all but myself were blind, I should want neither a fine house nor fine furniture.
Carelessness does more harm than a want of knowledge.
The key that unlocks a door is a key to keep if you want to go through that door again.
Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things
There is no man so bad, but he secretly respects the good.
Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.
We may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.
There are more old drunkards than old doctors.
If we restrict liberty to attain security we will lose them both.
If you would not be laughed at, be the first to laugh at yourself.