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#con

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #con




Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.


Benjamin Franklin


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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.


Benjamin Franklin


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We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.


Benjamin Franklin


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Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.


Benjamin Franklin


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Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.


Benjamin Franklin


#nobody #rich #who

That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.


Antonia Fraser


#major #prison #who #writers #writing

Because I don't take money, I'll go anywhere and do a benefit concert with almost any orchestra.


David Ogden Stiers


#any #anywhere #because #benefit #concert

I am not interested in considering another TV series. This one was a wonderful experience which will be hard to top, and It's caused me to turn down several good film opportunities because of the schedule.


Dennis Franz


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I feel as if I'm clearly part of a trend among writers who take themselves seriously - and I confess to taking myself as seriously as the next writer.


Jonathan Franzen


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The Chicago Economics Department was in intellectual ferment, although the central issues of the 1930's were very different from those in later times. I had never before encountered minds of that quality at close quarters and they influenced me strongly.


George Stigler


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