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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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Lost time is never found again, and what we call time enough, always proves little enough.
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Those who sacrifice essential liberty for temporary safety are not deserving of either liberty or safety.
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Most people die at 25 but are buried at 75.
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Private property...is the creature of society and is subject to the calls of that society even to the last farthing.
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Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.
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Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.
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To get the bad customs of a country changed and new ones, though better, introduced, it is necessary first to remove the prejudices of the people, enlighten their ignorance, and convince them that their interests will be promoted by the proposed changes and this is not the work of a day.
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I have heard that nothing gives an Author so great Pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors.
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Anger warms the invention, but overheats the oven.
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The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.
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Three things are men most likely to be cheated in, a horse, a wig, and a wife.
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Some make Conscience of wearing a Hat in the Church, who make none of robbing the Altar.
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I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.
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Where there's no law, there's no bread.
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Want of care does us more damage than want of knowledge
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Those things that hurt, instruct.
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Since I cannot govern my own tongue, though within my own teeth, how can I hope to govern the tongue of others?
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When you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests and their selfish views.
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