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Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally approved.
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Approve not of him who commends all you say.
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Why ruin a young girl's life when you can make an older women SO very happy !
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A man compounded of law and gospel is able to cheat a whole country with his religion and then destroy them under color of law
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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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The way to wealth depends on just two words, industry and frugality.
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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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Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.
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The two most beautiful sights I have witnessed in my life are a full blown ship at sail and the round-bellied pregnant female.
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No man ever was glorious, who was not laborious.
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Get what you can, and what you get hold 'tis the Stone that will turn all your Lead into Gold.
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Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.
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The thrifty maxim of the wary Dutch, Is to save all the Money they can touch
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Mankind are very odd creatures: one half censure what they practice, the other half practice what they censure the rest always say and do as they ought.
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If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fix'd in your present opinions, modest, sensible men, who do not love disputation, will probably leave you undisturbed in the possession of your error.
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Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least you will, by such conduct, stand the be.
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Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
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