Benjamin Franklin Quotes

As The Chief Ends Of Conversation Are To Inform Or To Be Informed, To Please Or To Persuade, I Wish Well-meaning, Sensible Men Would Not Lessen Their Power Of Doing Good By A Positive, Assuming Manner, That Seldom Fails To Disgust, Tends To Create Opposition, And To Defeat Every One Of Those Purposes For Which Speech Was Given To Us, To Wit, Giving Or Receiving Information Or Pleasure. For, If You Would Inform, A Positive And Dogmatical Manner In Advancing Your Sentiments May Provoke Contradiction And Prevent A Candid Attention.

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