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Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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Take it from Richard, poor and lame, What's begun in anger ends in shame.
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Sarcasm is the lowest form of humor but the highest form of flattery.
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Remember, Sir, that [England] began the slave trade!
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Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
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