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It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid only of standing still.
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No man ought to own more property than needed for his livelihood the rest, by right, belonged to the state.
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A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.
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The sleeping fox catches no poultry.
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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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Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults greater to tell him his.
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When you speak to a man, look on his eyes when he speaks to you, look on his mouth.
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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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By playing at Chess then, we may learn... First: Foresight. Second: Circumspection. Third: Caution.
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The United States Constitutional Convention, except for three or four persons, thought prayers unnecessary.
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