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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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There is always room for the man of force.
Benjamin Franklin
The first Degree of Folly, is to conceit one's self wise the second to profess it the third to despise Counsel.
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Creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times.
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'Tis more noble to forgive, and more manly to despise, than to revenge an Injury.
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Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.
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Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. Be active in business, that temptation may miss her aim the bird that sits is easily shot.
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Nothing's so apt to undermine your confidence in a product as knowing that the commercial selling it has been approved by the company that makes it.
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There will be plenty of time to sleep once you are dead
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Sloth and Silence are a Fool's Virtues
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The expenses required to prevent a war are much lighter than those that will, if not prevented, be absolutely necessary to maintain it.
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Time is money, be a better you.
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There never was a good knife made of bad steel.
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Let our Fathers and Grandfathers be valued for their Goodness, ourselves for our own.
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The next thing most like living one's life over again seems to be a recollection of that life, and to make that recollection as durable as possible by putting it down in writing.
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Here Skugg lies snug As a bug in a rug.
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Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
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A little Religion, and a little Honesty, goes a great way in Courts.
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Here comes the orator with his flood of words and his drop of reason.
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He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.
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Give me 26 lead soldiers and I will conquer the world.
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