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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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Here Skugg lies snug As a bug in a rug.
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Cunning proceeds from want of capacity.
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Creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times.
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The way to secure peace is to be prepared for war. They that are on their guard, and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being attacked, than the supine, secure, and negligent.
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Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
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Saying and Doing, have quarrel'd and parted.
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