Benjamin Franklin:

It is always better to be diligent, for he who toils with honor dies content, while he who is lazy sleeps with the diligent man's wife.

— Benjamin Franklin Early Modern

Electricity experiments, founding father

From 'Poor Richard's Almanack' (lesser-known wisdom)

Unknown, likely 18th century

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