Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.
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Benjamin Franklin
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A Benjamin Franklin Reader: The Essential Writings of a Colonial Sage
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Fart Proudly: Writings of Benjamin Franklin You Never Read in School
Memoirs of the life & writings of Benjamin Franklin
Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin
Poor Richard's Almanack
Remarks Concerning the Savages
Silence Dogood, The Busy-Body, and Early Writings
the Art of Virtue: His Formula for Successful Living
The Autobiography and Other Writings
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
The Life and Letters of Benjamin Franklin
The Way to Wealth
The Way to Wealth: Ben Franklin on Money and Success
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Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools that don't have brains enough to be honest.
Vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, but forbidden because they are hurtful.
Never confuse Motion with Action.