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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?
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Life is a kind of chess.
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They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
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Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter.
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A full Belly brings forth every Evil.
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I early found that when I worked for myself alone, myself alone worked for me but when I worked for others also, others worked also for me.
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A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.
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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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If you have time don't wait for time.
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Blame-all and Praise-all are two blockheads.
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When you are good to others, you are best to yourself.
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Your best investment is to pour your purse into your head, and no one can take it away from you.
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Freedom of speech is the great bulwark of liberty they prosper and die together: And it is the terror of traitors and oppressors, and a barrier against them. It produces excellent writers, and encourages men of fine genius.
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The pleasures of this world are rather from God's goodness than our own merit.
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Beware of meat twice boiled, and an old foe reconciled.
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In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.
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I hope...that mankind will at length, as they call themselves reasonable creatures, have reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats for in my opinion there never was a good war, or a bad peace.
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If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately.
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Trusting too much to others care is the ruin of many.
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A virtuous and industrious people may be cheaply governed.
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