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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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If Pride leads the Van, Beggary brings up the Rear.
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Scarcely have I ever heard or read the introductory phrase, I may say without vanity, but some striking and characteristic instance of vanity has immediately followed.
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Don't put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
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Do not do that which you would not have known.
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The US Constitution only guarantees your rights as a citizen, it doesn't guarantee happiness. It may take work, but if you have your rights, happiness is very possible.
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It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.
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The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.
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Success is the residue of planning.
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God helps those who help themselves.
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Cut the Wings of your Hens and Hopes, lest they lead you a weary Dance after them.
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A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
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To the haranguers of the populace among the ancients, succeed among the moderns your writers of political pamphlets and news-papers, and your coffee-house talkers.
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[E]very Man who comes among us, and takes up a piece of Land, becomes a Citizen, and by our Constitution has a Voice in Elections, and a share in the Government of the Country.
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Be cheerful -- the problems that worry us most are those that never arrive.
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Little boats should keep near shore
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Grief for a dead Wife, and a troublesome Guest, Continues to the threshold, and there is at rest But I mean such wives as are none of the best
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There is scarce a king in a hundred who would not, if he could, follow the example of Pharoah - get first all the people's money, then all their lands, and then make them and their children servants forever.
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If you would know the value of money go, and try to borrow some! For, he that goes a borrowing, goes a sorrowing! and indeed, so does he that lends to such people, when he goes to get it in again!
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Remember, that money is of the prolific, generating nature.
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An Egg to day is better than a Hen to-morrow.
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