Tricks and treachery are the practice of... by Benjamin Franklin | We Heart Quotes

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Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.

- Benjamin Franklin

Other quotes by Benjamin Franklin

Beware the hobby that eats.

- Benjamin Franklin

Difficulties Will

When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

- Benjamin Franklin

Day

He that rises late must trot all day.

- Benjamin Franklin

Wealth

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

- Benjamin Franklin

Kindness Will

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

- Benjamin Franklin

Manners

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.

- Benjamin Franklin

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