"I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends" — Benjamin Franklin

Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend

Source: The New England Tragedies, John Endicott (1868)

Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does

Source: Emma (1815)

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud

Source: The Spectator, no. 225 (1711)

The language of friendship is not words but meanings

Source: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849)

Optimism: The doctrine or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong

Source: The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it

Source: Walden (1854)

Benjamin Franklin Quote

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