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Never confuse motion with action.
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
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Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.
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Make the best use of both time and money. Add industry and frugal dealings if they pay very well and if you're free to it.
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There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
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Then plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep.
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I looked around for God's judgments, but saw no signs of them.
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When confronted with two courses of action I jot down on a piece of paper all the arguments in favor of each one, then on the opposite side I write the arguments against each one. Then by weighing the arguments pro and con and cancelling them out, one against the other, I take the course indicated by what remains.
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This [the U.S. Constitution] is likely to be administered for a course of years and then end in despotism... when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other.
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