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An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all the esteem of his fellow-citizens, and the joys of benevolent friendship, for the sake of accumulating wealth. Poor man, said I, you pay too much for your whistle.
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Pain wastes the Body, Pleasures the Understanding.
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Singularity in the right hath ruined many happy those who are convinced of the general opinion.
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There are three sorts of people in the world: Those who are immovable, people who don't get it, or don't want to do anything about it there are people who are movable, people who see the need for change and are prepared to listen to it and there are people who move, people who make things happen.
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An assembly of great men is the greatest fool upon earth.
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He that lieth down with Dogs, shall rise up with Fleas.
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In America, they do not inquire of a stranger, What is he? but, What can he do?
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There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
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An honest Man will receive neither Money nor Praise that is not his due.
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Many have been ruined by buying good Pennyworths.
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Nothing preaches better than the act.
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A man is not completely born until he is dead. Why then should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals, a new member added to their happy society?
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I would rather have it said, 'He lived usefully,' than, 'He died rich.'
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...it is prodigious the quantity of good that may be done by one man if he will make a business of it.
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Life is a kind of chess.
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An old man in a house is a good sign.
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When nature gave us tears, She gave us leave to weep.
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Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, & sloth Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both.
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Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?
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