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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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Pity and forbearance should characterize all acts of justice.
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Beware of meat twice boiled, and an old foe reconciled.
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So convenient a thing to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.
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Approve not of him who commends all you say.
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We are not so sensible of the greatest Health as of the least Sickness.
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Many have been ruined by buying good Pennyworths.
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It's better to swim in the sea below Than to swing in the air and feed the crow, Says jolly Ned Teach of Bristol.
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Grace thou thy house and let not that grace thee.
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The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can to hearken to what is said and to answer to the purpose.
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It is better to let 100 criminals go free than to imprison 1 innocent man.
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A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.
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Cold & cunning come from the north: But cunning sans wisdom is nothing worth.
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Cut the Wings of your Hens and Hopes, lest they lead you a weary Dance after them.
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A change of fortune hurts a wise man no more than a change of the moon.
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