Benjamin Franklin · 64 pages
Rating: (234 votes)
“I believe in one God, Creator of the Universe in that He ought to be whipped from pilar to post and back again for His shameful actions toward Humanity.”
“Give me 26 lead soldiers and I will conquer the world.”
“Doing an Injury puts you below your Enemy; Revenging one makes you but even with him; Forgiving it sets you above him.”
“At 20 years of age the Will reigns; at 30 the Wit; at 40 the Judgment.”
“Anger is never without a Reason, but seldom with a good One.”
“Discontented Minds, and Fevers of the Body are not to be cured by changing Beds or Businesses.”
“Years of best-friendness, sisterhood, reduced to a complete communication blackout.”
“I feel time beginning to slow, until the last of him is grey powder on the sea and time stops altogether.”
“She is leaving him, not all at once, which would be painful enough, but in a wrenching succession of separations. One moment she is here, and then she is gone again, and each journey takes her a little farther from his reach. He cannot follow her, and he wonders where she goes when she leaves.”
“Every time we left a place, I felt the things that happened there being wiped clean, till all that was left was Ella, our fights and our talks and our winding roads. I wrote down dates and places in the corners of my books, and lost them along the way.”
“occasionally nods off against his shoulder; Lale doesn’t push him away. He is just one among countless young men stuffed into”
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