Notes for Benjamin Franklin: The Wit and Wisdom of Ben Franklin as taken from Dan Valentine's " Ameri- can Essay's #9. "He who falles in love with himself--- will have no rivals."
"If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him."
"There are three faithful friends: An old wife, and old dog---and ready money!"
"Creditors have better memories than debtors."
"To find a girl's faults, praise her to her girl friends."
"Love your neighbors---but don't pull down your hedge."
"Rich widows are the only second hand goods that sell at a first class price."
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Ben Franklin slept in four beds every night. He had a theory that a warm bed sapped a man's vitality. So, when one bed became too warm, he hopped into another.
Ben Franklin after signing the "Declaration of Independence" turned to his colleagues and said: "Gentlemen, we must all hang together--or surely we will all hang separately."
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Ben Franklin, one of the fiestiest Americans who ever lived, didn't lose many battles in his zesty life... But he did strike out when it came to the turkey! Right after the birth of th nation, the founding fathers got together and decided it would be nice for the new U.S. of America to have an official seal....This would be placed on the money, the coins and all the important documents.
So a few artists whipped up some roughs of the great seal...and the one se- lected featured a picture of the bald eagle.
Old Ben got wind of this, and you could hear him bellowing all the way from Philapdelphia to the Port of New York.
"An eagle for our national bird, never!" old Ben snorted.
He said there was only one bird fit to be on the official Great Seal of the U.S. and that was a plain, old American Turkey.
Ben said that compared to turkeys, bald eagles were no good bums and shouldn't be allowed in the country, much less perched on the nation's great seal.
He said, and this is a direct quote: "An eagle is a bird of very bad moral character"... and does not even work for a living, but spends its time soaring around stealing fish and anything else edible that isn't nailed down.
Ben argued and argued, but it didn't do any good. The blad eagle lobby won.
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Children of Benjamin Franklin and Debora Read are:
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