John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| Benjamin Franklin. (1706–1790) (continued) |
| 3943 |
| We are a kind of posterity in respect to them. 1 |
| Letter to William Strahan, 1745. |
| 3944 |
| Remember that time is money. |
| Advice to a Young Tradesman, 1748. |
| 3945 |
| Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter. |
| Letter on the Stamp Act, July 1, 1765. |
| 3946 |
| Here Skugg lies snug As a bug in a rug. 2 |
| Letter to Miss Georgiana Shipley, September, 1772. |
| 3947 |
| There never was a good war or a bad peace. 3 |
| Letter to Josiah Quincy, Sept. 11, 1773. |
| 3948 |
| You and I were long friends: you are now my enemy, and I am yours. |
| Letter to William Strahan, July 5, 1775. |
| 3949 |
| We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately. |
| At the signing of the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776. |
| 3950 |
| He has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle. |
| The Whistle. November, 1779. |
| 3951 |
| Here you would know and enjoy what posterity will say of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with a thousand years. |
| Letter to Washington, March 5, 1780. |
| 3952 |
| Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes. |
| Letter to M. Leroy, 1789. |
| Note 1. Byron’s European fame is the best earnest of his immortality, for a foreign nation is a kind of contemporaneous posterity.—Horace Binny Wallace: Stanley, or the Recollections of a Man of the World, vol. ii. p. 89. [back] |
| Note 2. Snug as a bug in a rug.—The Stratford Jubilee, ii. 1, 1779. [back] |
| Note 3. It hath been said that an unjust peace is to be preferred before a just war.—Samuel Butler: Speeches in the Rump Parliament. Butler’s Remains. [back] |