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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words, Without vanity I may say, etc., but some vain thing immediately followed.
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Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy.
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Take the money in your wallet and invest it in your mind. And in return, your mind will fill up your wallet!
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It is the man and woman united that makes the complete human being. Separate she lacks his force of body and strength of reason he her softness, sensibility and acute discernment. Together they are most likely to succeed in the world.
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Quacks are the greatest liars in the world except their patients.
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I think opinions should be judged by their influences and effects and if a man holds none that tend to make him less virtuous or more vicious, it may be concluded that he holds none that are dangerous, which I hope is the case with me.
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Scarcely was I arrived at fifteen years of age, when, after having doubted in turn of different tenets, according as I found them combated in the different books that I read, I began to doubt of Revelation itself.
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No nation has ever been ruined by trade.
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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
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In the dark, all cats are grey.
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A penny saved is a penny earned.
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A man is not completely born until he is dead. Why then should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals, a new member added to their happy society?
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God grant, that not only the Love of Liberty, but a thorough Knowledge of the Rights of Man, may pervade all the Nations of the Earth, so that a Philosopher may set his Foot anywhere on its Surface, and say, 'This is my Country.'
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Joy doesn't exist in the world, it exists in us.
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Man is a tool-making animal
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The next thing most like living one's life over again seems to be a recollection of that life, and to make that recollection as durable as possible by putting it down in writing.
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If you want to make a friend, let someone do you a favor.
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The first mistake in public business is the going into it.
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In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.
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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.
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