“He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.”

— Benjamin Franklin · Action quote

Founding Father, inventor · 1706 – 1790

American polymath - printer, scientist, diplomat - and a Founding Father of the United States.

Source: Poor Richard Improved (1753) · ✓ Source verified

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Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

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