“Better slip with foot than tongue.” Ben admitted that many of those maxims were not original to him, but used his pen to adapt them from literary works and folk wisdom. A closer look at Ben life through his relationships to women reveals a different founding father than one found in ...
Franklin had to say to Banks: “What vast additions to the Conveniences and Comforts of Living might Mankind have acquired, if the Money spent in Wars had been employed in Works of public utility! What an extension of Agriculture, even to the Tops of our Mountains: what Rivers ...
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–Titus Andronicus: Act 4, Scene 2 Ben Franklin In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is freedom, in water there is bacteria. –This quote is often attributed to Ben Franklin though there’s been debate lately about that. Mark Twain: To create man was a fine and original idea; but ...
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Thomas Mellon (of the Mellon Bank) and James Harper (of Harper publishing) found inspiration in them, and in Franklin’s autobiography, he was recast as a puritan workhorse. Franklin was no longer “funny,” but an icon of the common man’s culture he once mocked—our first Tony Robbins...