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Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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What more valuable than Gold? Diamonds. Than Diamonds? Virtue.
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I would rather have it said, 'He lived usefully,' than, 'He died rich.'
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If you want to make a friend, let someone do you a favor.
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On the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet I was, by the endeavor, a better and a happier man than I otherwise should have been had I not attempted it.
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I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.
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Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter.
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A dying man can do nothing easy.
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