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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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I think with you, that nothing is of more importance for the public weal, than to form and train up youth in wisdom and virtue. Wise and good men are in my opinion, the strength of the state more so than riches or arms.
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In prosperous fortunes be modest and wise, The greatest may fall, and the lowest may rise: But insolent People that fall in disgrace, Are wretched and nobody pities their Case.
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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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The borrower is a slave to the lender and the debtor to the creditor.
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There are two ways to increase your wealth. Increase your means or decrease your wants. The best is to do both at the same time.
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Annual giving is the custom of making a gift-a-year to an institution in which one has faith.
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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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You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?
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Lying rides upon debt's back.
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He that can have patience can have what he will.
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The United States Constitutional Convention, except for three or four persons, thought prayers unnecessary.
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Private property...is the creature of society and is subject to the calls of that society even to the last farthing.
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What is best for people is what they do for themselves.
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Content makes poor men rich discontent makes rich men poor.
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Doing an injury puts you below your enemy revenging one make you but even with him forgiving it sets you above him.
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Twas Noah who first planted the vine And mended his morals by drinking its wine.
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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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He that hath a trade hath an estate and he that hath a calling hath a place of profit and honor. A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.
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In humility imitate Jesus and Socrates.
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Getting into debt, is getting into a tanglesome net.
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