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Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily cracked, and never well mended.
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
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No longer virtuous no longer free is a Maxim as true with regard to a private Person as a Common-wealth.
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All the heavenly Bodies, the Stars and Planets, are regulated with the utmost Wisdom! And can we suppose less Care to be taken in the Order of the moral than in the natural System?
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I have thought that wild flowers might be the alphabet of angels, — whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious truths, which it is not given our fallen nature to understand.
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Be civil to all serviceable to many familiar with few friend to one enemy to none.
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Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility they think the same of theirs.
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