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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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No nation was ever ruined by trade.
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'Tis more noble to forgive, and more manly to despise, than to revenge an Injury.
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Fish and visitors stink in three days.
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There is nothing so absurd as knowledge spun too fine.
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I am the laziest man in the world. I invented all those things to save myself from toil.
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A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.
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The busy man has few idle visitors to the boiling pot the flies come not.
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Handle your tools without mittens.
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The refusal of King George to allow the colonies to operate an honest money system, which freed the ordinary man from clutches of the money manipulators was probably the prime cause of the revolution.
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I would rather have it said, 'He lived usefully,' than, 'He died rich.'
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A dying man can do nothing easy.
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For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.
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I have never seen the Philosopher's Stone that turns lead into Gold, but I have known the pursuit of it turn a Man's Gold into Lead.
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If we lose our Money, it gives us some Concern. If we are cheated or robb'd of it, we are angry: But Money lost may be found what we are robb'd of may be restored: The Treasure of Time once lost, can never be recovered yet we squander it as tho' 'twere nothing worth, or we had no Use for it.
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Cunning proceeds from want of capacity.
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Don't you know, that all wives are in the right? It may be you don't, for you are yet a young husband.
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I was surprised to find myself so much fuller of Faults than I had imagined, but I had the Satisfaction of seeing them diminish.
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If you have time don't wait for time.
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Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
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Creditors have better memories than debtors.
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