In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
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Benjamin FranklinLetter to Jean-Baptiste Le Roy (1789)
About Benjamin Franklin
American founding father, scientist, inventor and publisher of Poor Richard's Almanack. (1706-1790)
More from Benjamin Franklin
- Well done is better than well said.Poor Richard's Almanack (1737)
- Lost time is never found again.Poor Richard's Almanack (1748)
- Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.Poor Richard's Almanack (1746; repeated 1757)
- Diligence is the mother of good luck.Poor Richard's Almanack (1736)
- Little strokes fell great oaks.Poor Richard's Almanack (1750)
- Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade?Poor Richard's Almanack (1750)
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- Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.Charles Dickens
- I always count my blessings, more than I count my money.Dolly Parton
- It takes a lot of money to look this cheap.Dolly Parton
- If you don't save something on your current income, you won't save anything on your future income.Zig Ziglar
- Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.Jim Rohn
- Profits are better than wages. Wages make you a living; profits make you a fortune.Jim Rohn
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