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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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At twenty years of age the will reigns at thirty, the wit and at forty, the judgment.
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Where there's no law, there's no bread.
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Let the experiment be made.
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The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.
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Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.
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One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.
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You may sometimes be much in the Wrong, in owning your being in the Right.
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Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy.
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An Egg to day is better than a Hen to-morrow.
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Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece but it is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.
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I am the laziest man in the world. I invented all those things to save myself from toil.
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Drive your business. Let not your business drive you.
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We may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.
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Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults.
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In other men we faults can spy,/ And blame the mote that dims their eye/ Each little speck and blemish find/ To our own stronger errors blind.
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Human happiness comes not from infrequent pieces of good fortune, but from the small improvements to daily life.
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What maintains one vice would bring up two children.
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It's better to swim in the sea below Than to swing in the air and feed the crow, Says jolly Ned Teach of Bristol.
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Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.
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Marriage is the most natural state of man, and therefore the state in which one is most likely to find solid happiness.
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