We are more thoroughly an
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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- In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires. – Benjamin Franklin
- Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never. – Benjamin Franklin
- Leisure is time for doing something useful; this leisure the diligent man will obtain, but the lazy man never. – Benjamin Franklin
- Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure. – Benjamin Franklin
- Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure. – Benjamin Franklin
- A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave. – Benjamin Franklin
- A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave. – Benjamin Franklin
- A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave. – Benjamin Franklin
- A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two different things. – Benjamin Franklin
- All intellectual improvement arises from leisure. – Samuel Johnson