Benjamin Franklin National

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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)

    “A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.”
    —Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)

    “The word which gives the key to the national vice is waste. And people who are wasteful are not wise, neither can they remain young and vigorous. In order to transmute energy to higher and more subtle levels one must first conserve it.”
    —Henry Miller (1891–1980)