Human felicity is produced not as much by great pi... -Benjamin Franklin

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

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Benjamin Franklin was an American polymath, inventor, writer, and statesman. With his contributions to science, literature, and politics, he made a significant impact in multiple fields, playing a key role in the American Revolution and becoming one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.

Benjamin Franklin Quotes to Explore

Well done is better than well said....
In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires....
All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones....
Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later....
There was never a good war, or a bad peace....
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it....
Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor....
Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it....
Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter....
He that lives upon hope will die fasting....

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The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure....
From the depths of the West of Europe, a young child will be born of poor people, he who by his tongue will seduce a great troop; his fame will increa...
Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven....
I was a disadvantaged child from a non-educated family, yet I had the advantage of being in the company of great teachers....
I was filming in Roscrea in Co Tipperary. I had great fun watching monks in the monastery there making bread. They even offered me a job as their main...
The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities....
A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept put...
I know that I'm not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I...
Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day....
I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic....