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)