…from my man, Benjamin Franklin, philosopher, scientist, founder of a nation:
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write something worth reading or do things worth the writing.
Those are words to live be.
Sir Winston’s Quote for Today
The light of the current goings-on in the United States, may I humbly offer the following quote from a great leader.
I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
Sir Winston Churchill
Bits of Wisdom
Readers of this blog know that I hold Benjamin Franklin in high esteem as perhaps not only the greatest of Americans to date, but also the first and most wise. Thus, it is only right that I put a few bits of his wisdom here on The Bent Page. The following are a few of my favorites:
Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.
Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to get leisure.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
If only these prescriptions were followed more closely. Surely our world would be a better place for all.
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