Tuesday, December 25, 2018

The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin. Quotes IX

-These things I mention as a caution to young printers, and that they may be encouraged not to pollute their presses and disgrace their profession by such infamous practices, but refuse steadily, as they may see by my example that such a course of conduct will not on the whole, be injurious to their interests.
-I did not, however, aim at gaining his favor by paying any servile respect to him.
-He that has once done you a kindness, will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.
-After getting the first hundred pound, it is more easy to get the second.
-Never to ask for an office, and never to refuse one when offered to him.
-Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur everyday.
-When men are employed they are best contented.

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