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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.
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 playing at Chess then, we may learn: First: Foresight... Second: Circumspection... Third: Caution...And lastly, we learn by Chess the habit of not being discouraged by present bad appearances in the state of our affairs, the habit of hoping for a favorable chance, and that of persevering in the secrets of resources
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You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.
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Nature performs the cure, the physician takes the fee.
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I would advise you to read with a pen in your hand and enter in a little book short hints of what you feel that is common or that may be useful for this will be the best method of imprinting such portcullis in your memory.
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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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Flesh eating is unprovoked murder.
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My rule, in which I have always found satisfaction, is, never to turn aside in public affairs through views of private interest but to go straight forward in doing what appears to me right at the time, leaving the consequences with Providence.
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If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
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Here's to our beloved George Washington, the Joshua of America, who commanded the sun and the moon to stand still - and they obeyed.
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If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking.
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Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended but that Tomorrow never comes.
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The noblest question in the world is: 'What good may I do in it?'
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There are two ways to increase your wealth. Increase your means or decrease your wants. The best is to do both at the same time.
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You may sometimes be much in the Wrong, in owning your being in the Right.
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Time Like a petal in the wind Flows softly by As old lives are taken New ones begin A continual chain Which lasts throughout eternity Every life but a minute in time But each of equal importance
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