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Frankisms
Short truths, collected over a lifetime of writing and teaching. Read a few, or lose an afternoon.
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“We must, indeed, all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately. — Benjamin Franklin”
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“We never repent of having eaten too little. — Thomas Jefferson”
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“We rarely find that people have good sense unless they agree with us. — François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (16131680), Reflections, maxim 347”
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“We see more of ourselves in people who mess up, who say dumb things at exactly the wrong moment. — Eric Edson”
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“We shall be judged more by what we do at home than what we preach abroad. — John F. Kennedy”
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“We were poor when I was young, but the difference then was that the government didn’t come around telling you you were poor. — Ronald Reagan”
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“We’re pursuing pleasure and painlessness because we think that’s where we’re most happy. But we’re not. — Jeff Goins”
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“Wealth consists not in having great possessions but in having few wants. — Epicurus”
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“Well done is better than well said. — Benjamin Franklin”
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“What counts is not the size of the dog in the fight but the size of the fight in the dog. — Dwight David Eisenhower”
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“What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger. — Albert Camus”
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“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us. — Ralph Waldo Emerson”
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“What probably distorts everything in life is that one is convinced that one is speaking the truth because one says what one thinks. — Sacha Guitry, 18851959”
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“What we usually pray to God is not that his will be done, but the he approve ours. — Helga Bergold Gross”
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“What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others. — Confucius (551-479 BC), Analects, 15:23”
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“What you must do, do cheerfully. — H. Jackson Brown Jr”
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“What’s most powerful is often what you most want to hide. — Robin Hemley”
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“Whatever a man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself to this: Great God, grant that twice two be not four. — Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (18181883), Prayer”
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“Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well. — Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield (16941773), Letters to His Son, March 10, 1746”
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“When a man’s friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old. — Washington Irving”
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“When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest. — William Hazlitt, 17781830”
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“When everyone paints with lime green, lime green no longer stands out. — Chip Heath”
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“When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. — Mark Twain”
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“When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. — John Ruskin”
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“When my horse is running good, I don’t stop to give him sugar. — William Faulkner”
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“When the well’s dry, we know the worth of water. — Benjamin Franklin (17061790), Poor Richard’s Almanac [1746], January”
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“When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always be worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better. — Malcolm S. Forbes”
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“When you compliment your competitor, you are demonstrating respect—and respect earns respect. — Bob Burg”
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“When you go to borrow money, dress as if you have plenty of it. — H. Jackson Brown Jr”
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“When you’re green, you’re growing; and when you’re ripe, you start to rot. — Ray Kroc, founder of McDonald’s”
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“Where is there any book of the law so clear to each man as that written in his heart? — Tolstoi”
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“Wherever God rules over the human heart as King, there is the kingdom of God established. — Paul W. Harrison”
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“Whether we live in a ten-room villa or a one-room flat, we lose quantities of time by not being able to find things. — Thomas Harris”
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“Without problems and conflicts in our lives, very little would ever change. — Dara Marks”
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“Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow. — Benjamin Franklin (17061790), Poor Richard’s Almanac [1757], May”
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“Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. — C. Northcote Parkinson”
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“Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble. — George Lyons”
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“Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. — Thomas J. Watson, founder of IBM”
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“Wrinkles can kill you if you cringe every time you look in the mirror. — Thomas Harris”
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“Yes, risk-taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking. — Tim McMahon”
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