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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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Fear God, and your enemies will fear you.
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You will discover 3 trustworthy mates, an aged wife, an aged canine, and ready dollars.
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The poor have little beggars, none the rich, too much enough, not one.
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The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
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Don't go to the doctor with every distemper, nor to the lawyer with every quarrel, nor to the pot for every thirst.
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Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.
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Thank God! we are in the full enjoyment of all these privileges. But can we be taught to prize them too much? or how can we prize them equal to their value, if we do not know their intrinsic worth, and that they are not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature?
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Write with the learned, pronounce with the vulgar.
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Time eateth all things, could old poets say, The times are chang'd, our times drink all away.
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Creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times.
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Men are subject to various inconveniences merely through lack of a small share of courage, which is a quality very necessary in the common occurrences of life, as well as in a battle. How many impertinences do we daily suffer with great uneasiness, because we have not courage enough to discover our dislike.
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A word to the wise is enough, and many words won't fill a bushel.
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Don't put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
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Take counsel in wine, but resolve afterwards in water.
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Games lubricate the body and the mind.
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The happy State of Matrimony is, undoubtedly, the surest and most lasting Foundation of Comfort and Love . . . the Cause of all good Order in the World, and what alone preserves it from the utmost Confusion.
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Flesh eating is unprovoked murder.
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A man compounded of law and gospel is able to cheat a whole country with his religion and then destroy them under color of law
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There are many roads to success, but only one sure road to failure and that is to try to please everyone else.
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Suspicion may be no fault, but showing it may be a great one.
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