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Where liberty is, there is my country.
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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Evils come not, then our fears are vain And if they do fear but augments the pain.
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Nothing preaches better than the act.
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Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
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I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives.
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Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.
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A man is not completely born until he is dead. Why then should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals, a new member added to their happy society?
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I have heard that nothing gives an Author so great Pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors.
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A penny saved is a penny earned.
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Take courage, Mortal... Death cannot banish you from the Universe.
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Great talkers should be cropt, for they've no need of ears.
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