Benjamin Franklin Quotes About Perfection

• Lawyers, Preachers, and Tomtits Eggs, there are more of them hatch'd than come to perfection.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Law, Eggs, Perfection

  Poor Richard's Almanack, May 1734

• Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility; they think the same of theirs.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Thinking, Perfection, Savages

  Benjamin Franklin, Ralph Louis Ketcham (2003). “The Political Thought of Benjamin Franklin”, p.368, Hackett Publishing

• On the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet I was, by the endeavor, a better and a happier man than I otherwise should have been had I not attempted it.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Happiness, Men, Should Have

  Benjamin Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ..., 1”, p.138

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