When you're testing to see how deep... by Benjamin Franklin | We Heart Quotes

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When you're testing to see how deep water is, never use two feet.

- Benjamin Franklin

Other quotes by Benjamin Franklin

We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.

- Benjamin Franklin

Happiness Man Will

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.

- Benjamin Franklin

Faith

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

- Benjamin Franklin

Difficulties Will

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

- Benjamin Franklin

Country

Where liberty is, there is my country.

- Benjamin Franklin

Fish

Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.

- Benjamin Franklin

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