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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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The noblest question in the world is: 'What good may I do in it?'
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If you have no Honey in your Pot, have some in your Mouth.
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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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An old young man, will be a young old man.
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He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.
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He that's content hath enough.
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Let the experiment be made.
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A change of fortune hurts a wise man no more than a change of the moon.
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When the well is dry, we know the worth of water.
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The exact Quantity and Quality being found out, is to be kept to constantly.
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Time is money'... Waste it now. Pay for it later!
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Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.
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Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece but it is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.
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Private property...is the creature of society and is subject to the calls of that society even to the last farthing.
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By playing at Chess then, we may learn: First: Foresight... Second: Circumspection... Third: Caution...And lastly, we learn by Chess the habit of not being discouraged by present bad appearances in the state of our affairs, the habit of hoping for a favorable chance, and that of persevering in the secrets of resources
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The next thing most like living one's life over again seems to be a recollection of that life, and to make that recollection as durable as possible by putting it down in writing.
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Many a long dispute among divines may be thus abridged: It is so It is not so. It is so it is not so.
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The best investment is in the tools of one's own trade.
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Cut the Wings of your Hens and Hopes, lest they lead you a weary Dance after them.
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And where is the Prince who can afford to so cover his country with troops for its defense, as that ten thousand men descending from the clouds, might not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief, before a force could be brought together to repel them?
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