Benjamin Franklin Class

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“Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.”
—Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)

“The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.”
—Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)

“No nation was ever ruined by trade.”
—Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)

“The pursuit of Fashion is the attempt of the middle class to co-opt tragedy. In adopting the clothing, speech, and personal habits of those in straitened, dangerous, or pitiful circumstances, the middle class seeks to have what it feels to be the exigent and nonequivocal experiences had by those it emulates.”
—David Mamet (b. 1947)