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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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In rivers and bad governments the lightest things swim at top.
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If your riches are yours, why don't you take them with you to the other world?
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Take counsel in wine, but resolve afterwards in water.
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Poverty, Poetry, and new Titles of Honor, make Men ridiculous
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Necessity never made a good bargain.
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an enormous proportion of property vested in a few individuals is dangerous to the rights, and destructive of the common happiness of mankind, and, therefore, every free state hath a right by its laws to discourage the possession of such property.
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He does not possess wealth it possesses him.
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Hot things, sharp things, sweet things, cold things All rot the teeth, and make them look like old things.
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A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
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He that lieth down with Dogs, shall rise up with Fleas.
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Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.
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Take care of the halfpence and pence, and the shillings and pounds will take care of themselves.
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Fish and visitors stink in three days.
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All highly competent people continually search for ways to keep learning, growing, and improving. They do that by asking WHY. After all, the person who knows HOW will always have a job, but the person who knows WHY will always be the boss.
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I think opinions should be judged by their influences and effects and if a man holds none that tend to make him less virtuous or more vicious, it may be concluded that he holds none that are dangerous, which I hope is the case with me.
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There is nothing so absurd as knowledge spun too fine.
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Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.
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Christianity commands us to pass by injuries policy, to let them pass by us.
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To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
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If you wou'd have Guests merry with your cheer, Be so your self, or so at least appear.
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