“When I was younger I cried over everything from sneers to sad endings, and even once over a puddle of tadpoles that dried up in the sun, but at some point I learned the trick of stoicism: you hide. You pull yourself inside your castle walls and crank up the drawbridge and watch everything from the tallest tower.”
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Top 50 Benjamin Franklin Quotes
12. “Time is money.”
19. “Practice makes perfect.”
39. “Do well by doing good.”
