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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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Great talkers are little doers.
Benjamin Franklin
I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people.
Benjamin Franklin
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.
Benjamin Franklin
Lost time is never found again, and what we call time enough, always proves little enough.
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Serving God is doing good to man, but praying is thought an easier service and therefore more generally chosen.
Benjamin Franklin
Would thou confound thy enemy, be good thyself.
Benjamin Franklin
The United States Constitutional Convention, except for three or four persons, thought prayers unnecessary.
Benjamin Franklin
If we look back into history for the character of the present sects in Christianity, we shall find few that have not in their turns been persecutors, and complainers of persecution. The primitive Christians thought persecution extremely wrong in the Pagans, but practised it on one another.
Benjamin Franklin
The happy State of Matrimony is, undoubtedly, the surest and most lasting Foundation of Comfort and Love . . . the Cause of all good Order in the World, and what alone preserves it from the utmost Confusion.
Benjamin Franklin
One mend-fault is worth two find-faults, but one find-fault is better than two make-faults.
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Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones the difference is only in the price.
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Are you angry that others disappoint you? Remember you cannot depend upon yourself.
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Common sense is something that everyone needs, few have, and none think they lack.
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Human happiness comes not from infrequent pieces of good fortune, but from the small improvements to daily life.
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You can not pluck roses without fear of thorns, Nor enjoy a fair wife without danger of horns.
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Beer is God's way of telling us that he loves us and wants us to be happy.
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We are a kind of posterity in respect to them.
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Write with the learned, pronounce with the vulgar.
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No nation has ever been ruined by trade.
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He'll cheat without scruple, who can without fear.
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