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No nation was ever ruined by trade.
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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Those who beat their swords into plowshares usually end up plowing for those who kept their swords.
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Getting into debt, is getting into a tanglesome net.
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I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he first forms a good plan, and, cutting off all amusements or other employments that would divert his attention, make the execution of that same plan his sole study and business.
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Men are subject to various inconveniences merely through lack of a small share of courage, which is a quality very necessary in the common occurrences of life, as well as in a battle. How many impertinences do we daily suffer with great uneasiness, because we have not courage enough to discover our dislike.
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He that lieth down with Dogs, shall rise up with Fleas.
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Remember, Sir, that [England] began the slave trade!
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Governments having failed the people, the people are entirely justified in assuming for themselves an essential role in government. Where a government takes proper measures to protect the people under its care, such a proceeding might have been thought both unnecessary and unjustifiable: But here it is quite the Reverse.
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'Tis more noble to forgive, and more manly to despise, than to revenge an Injury.
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In success be moderate.
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Without justice, courage is weak.
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Fart for freedom, fart for liberty—and fart proudly.
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There is no little enemy
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The sun of liberty is set you must light up the candle of industry and economy.
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As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
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Love well, whip well.
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Blame-all and Praise-all are two blockheads.
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Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.
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