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A small leak can sink a great ship
Things and Little Things
Benjamin Franklin

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Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
Expenditure
Benjamin Franklin

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He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.
Rest
Benjamin Franklin

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If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
Time and Time Management
Benjamin Franklin

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Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones -- with ingratitude.
Gratitude
Benjamin Franklin

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Take time for all things; great haste makes great waste.
Hatred
Benjamin Franklin

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There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.
Fame
Benjamin Franklin

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There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
Greatness
Benjamin Franklin

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Don't forget your great guns, which are the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings.
Kings
(Frederick II) Frederick The Great

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Fear is a great inventor.
Invention and Inventor
French Proverb

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Great talker, great liar.
Lies and Lying
French Proverb

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There are two great pleasures in gambling: that of winning and that of losing.
Gambling
French Proverb

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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.
Work
French Proverb

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Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.
God
Robert Frost

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If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.
America
Robert Frost

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There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.
Heart
Robert Frost

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The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.
Greatness
James A. Froude

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Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.
Popularity
Margaret Fuller

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Great and good are seldom the same man.
Greatness
Thomas Fuller

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Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.
Repentance
Thomas Fuller

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He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it.
Appearance
Thomas Fuller

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.
Life and Living
Clark Gable

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There is no greater fraud than a promise not kept.
Fraud
Gaelic Proverb

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In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.
Institutions
John Kenneth Galbraith

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One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
Wisdom
John Kenneth Galbraith

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun