Benjamin Franklin Class

Famous quotes containing the words benjamin franklin, benjamin, franklin and/or class:

    “Opportunity is the great bawd.”
    —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)

    “I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.”
    —Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)

    “One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.”
    —Dorothy Allison (b. 1949)