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The doors of wisdom are never shut.
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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Take a coin from your purse and invest it in your mind. It will come pouring out of your mind and overflow your purse.
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Where there is hunger, law is not regarded and where law is not regarded, there will be hunger.
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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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All the heavenly Bodies, the Stars and Planets, are regulated with the utmost Wisdom! And can we suppose less Care to be taken in the Order of the moral than in the natural System?
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To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
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Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is hurtful.
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Love of country is the Mason's deed world citizenship is his thought.
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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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My father's little library consisted chiefly of books in polemic divinity, most of which I read, and have since often regretted that, at a time when I had such a thirst for knowledge, more proper books had not fallen in my way since it was now resolved I should not be a clergyman.
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Temperance puts wood on the fire, meal in the barrel, flour in the tub, money in the purse, credit in the country, contentment in the house, clothes on the back, and vigor in the body.
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No man ever was glorious, who was not laborious.
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