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He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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An honest Man will receive neither Money nor Praise that is not his due.
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He that is conscious of a stink in his breeches is [suspicious] of every wrinkle in another's nose.
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A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
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The moral and religious system which Jesus Christ transmitted to us is the best the world has ever seen, or can see.
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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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Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure nothing more bondage than too much liberty.
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Don't go to the doctor with every distemper, nor to the lawyer with every quarrel, nor to the pot for every thirst.
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Many dishes many diseases, Many medicines few cures.
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Don't think so much of your own Cunning, as to forget other Men's a Cunning Man is overmatched by a cunning Man and a Half.
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The Body of B. Franklin, Printer Like the Cover of an old Book Its Contents turn out And Stript of its Lettering & Guilding Lies here. Food for Worms For, it will as he believed appear once more In a new and more elegant Edition corrected and improved By the Author.
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Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
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