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You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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As to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the system of Morals and his Religion, as he left them to us, the best the World ever saw or is likely to see but I apprehend it has received various corrupting Changes and I have, with most of the present Dissenters in England, some doubts as to his divinity.
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I never knew a man who was good at making excuses who was good at anything else.
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Whenever we attempt to mend the scheme of Providence and to interfere in the Government of the world, we had need be very circumspect lest we do more harm than good.
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They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.
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Take courage, Mortal... Death cannot banish you from the Universe.
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But the eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. If all but myself were blind, I should want neither fine clothes, fine houses nor fine furniture.
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No longer virtuous no longer free is a Maxim as true with regard to a private Person as a Common-wealth.
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Learn of the skillful he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master.
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an enormous proportion of property vested in a few individuals is dangerous to the rights, and destructive of the common happiness of mankind, and, therefore, every free state hath a right by its laws to discourage the possession of such property.
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After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.
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A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.
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Pride gets into the Coach, and Shame mounts behind.
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[It was] the poverty caused by the bad influence of the English bankers on the Parliament which has caused in the colonies hatred of the English and . . . the Revolutionary War.
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