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He that won't be counseled can't be helped.
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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Remember that credit is money.
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To whom you betray your secret you sell your liberty.
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Why ruin a young girl's life when you can make an older women SO very happy !
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Why does the blind man's wife paint herself.
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The riches of a country are to be valued by the quantity of labor its inhabitants are able to purchase, and not by the quantity of silver and gold they possess which will purchase more or less labor, and therefore is more or less valuable, as is said before, according to its scarcity or plenty.
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The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you're finished.
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Virtue may not always make a Face handsome, but Vice will certainly make it ugly.
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The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.
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No nation was ever ruined by trade.
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If you would know the value of money go, and try to borrow some! For, he that goes a borrowing, goes a sorrowing! and indeed, so does he that lends to such people, when he goes to get it in again!
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Life is a kind of chess.
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