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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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Who is wise? He that learns from everyone.
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Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself.
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Praise little, dispraise less.
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Some make Conscience of wearing a Hat in the Church, who make none of robbing the Altar.
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When about 16 Years of Age, I happened to meet with a Book written by one Tryon, recommending a Vegetable Diet. I determined to go into it.... My refusing to eat Flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chid for my singularity.
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Love, Cough, & a Smoke, can't well be hid.
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In the dark, all cats are grey.
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Lose no time be always employed in something useful.
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Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
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Virtue may not always make a Face handsome, but Vice will certainly make it ugly.
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Can anything be constant in a world which is eternally changing?
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Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily cracked, and never well mended.
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Pain wastes the Body, Pleasures the Understanding.
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He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.
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The game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement several very valuable qualities of the mind are to be acquired and strengthened by it, so as to become habits ready on all occasions, for life is a kind of chess.
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A quarrelsome man has no good neighbours.
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Would you live with ease, Do what you ought, and not what you please.
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If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all the esteem of his fellow-citizens, and the joys of benevolent friendship, for the sake of accumulating wealth. Poor man, said I, you pay too much for your whistle.
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Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
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