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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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All the heavenly Bodies, the Stars and Planets, are regulated with the utmost Wisdom! And can we suppose less Care to be taken in the Order of the moral than in the natural System?
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Life's Tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
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As charms are nonsense, nonsense is a charm.
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Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones the difference is only in the price.
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Since I cannot govern my own tongue, though within my own teeth, how can I hope to govern the tongue of others?
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A penny saved is twopence dear A pin a day 's a groat a year.
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Whether a Commonwealth suffers more by hypocritical pretenders to religion or by the openly profane? The most dangerous hypocrite in a Commonwealth is one who leaves the gospel for the sake of the law. A man compounded of law and gospel is able to cheat a whole country with his religion and then destroy them under color of law.
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