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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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Contentment makes a poor person rich and discontent makes a rich person poor.
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Freedom of speech is the great bulwark of liberty they prosper and die together: And it is the terror of traitors and oppressors, and a barrier against them. It produces excellent writers, and encourages men of fine genius.
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Marry above thy match and you will get a master.
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I have thought that wild flowers might be the alphabet of angels, — whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious truths, which it is not given our fallen nature to understand.
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Some men grow mad by studying much to know, But who grows mad by studying good to grow.
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Beer is God's way of telling us that he loves us and wants us to be happy.
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All highly competent people continually search for ways to keep learning, growing, and improving. They do that by asking WHY. After all, the person who knows HOW will always have a job, but the person who knows WHY will always be the boss.
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A little neglect may breed great mischief. ... For want of a nail, the shoe was lost for want of a shoe, the horse was lost for want of a horse, the battle was lost for want of the battle, the war was lost.
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Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.
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Cheese and salt meat, should be sparingly eat.
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Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility they think the same of theirs.
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You cannot always run from a weakness. You must sometime fight it out or perish.
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An assembly of great men is the greatest fool upon earth.
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Time is money'... Waste it now. Pay for it later!
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Take it from Richard, poor and lame, What's begun in anger ends in shame.
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