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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy.
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While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
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He that speaks ill of the mare will buy her.
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There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.
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I was surprised to find myself so much fuller of Faults than I had imagined, but I had the Satisfaction of seeing them diminish.
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An old young man, will be a young old man.
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A nod from a lord is a breakfast for a fool.
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A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins.” Benjamin Franklin
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Not to oversee workmen is to leave them your purse open.
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Many a long dispute among divines may be thus abridged: It is so It is not so. It is so it is not so.
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If thou hast wit and learning, add to it wisdom and modesty.
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Cheese and salt meat, should be sparingly eat.
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Have you something to do to-morrow do it to-day.
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When nature gave us tears, She gave us leave to weep.
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Be cheerful -- the problems that worry us most are those that never arrive.
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People who are wrapped up in themselves make small packages.
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Trouble Springs From Idleness.
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He that is conscious of a stink in his breeches is [suspicious] of every wrinkle in another's nose.
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Beware of meat twice boiled, and an old foe reconciled.
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Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least, you will by such conduct, stand the best chance for such consequences.
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