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Tart Words make no Friends: a spoonful of honey will catch more flies than Gallon of Vinegar.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1744 ed.)

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Franklin, Benjamin - Poor Richard (1744 ed.) | WIST Quotations

Tart Words make no Friends: a spoonful of honey will catch more flies than Gallon of Vinegar. Not original with Franklin. See Giovanni Torriano, A Common Place of Italian Proverbs [Piazza universale di proverbi Italiani] (1666): Il mele catta più mosche, che non fà l'aceto. Honey gets more flyes…

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Lex 5d ago

#JurassicPark dinosaurs took out #BenjaminFranklin ? 😮 😁 #Philly #Mummers

P. L. Klein 5d ago

"Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors and let every new year find you a better man." ~ #BenjaminFranklin

Guillotine Jones, Flâneur Dec 30

As Benjamin Franklin was leaving Independence Hall at the close of the Constitutional Convention in 1787, a woman asked him what kind of government had been established. “A republic, until you elect a serial liar, adjudicated rapist, and convicted felon like Trump,” he famously and presciently answered.
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Daily Stoic 🗿Dec 29

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

— Benjamin Franklin

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A quotation from Ben Franklin

Fear to do ill, and you need fear nought else.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1740 ed.)

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Poor Richard (1740 ed.) - Franklin, Benjamin | WIST Quotations

Fear to do ill, and you need fear nought else.

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WIST Quotations Has Moved!Dec 18

A quotation from Ben Franklin

’Tis easy to frame a good bold resolution;
But hard is the Task that concerns execution.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1743 ed.)

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Poor Richard (1743 ed.) - Franklin, Benjamin | WIST Quotations

’Tis easy to frame a good bold resolution; But hard is the Task that concerns execution.

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Deceptichum Dec 13

Glass Armonica (spinning glass bowls... that break) - Rob Scallon

Glass Armonica (spinning glass bowls... that break)

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Deceptichum Dec 13

"Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" played on A Glass Armonica

Context: The Glass Armonica or Glass Hermonica was invented in 1761 by Benjamin Franklin. These devices are incredibly fragile and applying too much pressure or not wetting your hands enough can lend itself to broken glass shards in your fingers.