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Fish and visitors stink in three days.
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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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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When women cease to be handsome, they study to be good.
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You have on hand those things that you need if you have but the wit and wisdom to use them.
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If you give up your freedom for safety, you don't deserve either one
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Life's Tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
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A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can never be spent.
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A man is sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps through fear of being thought to have but little.
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Give me 26 lead soldiers and I will conquer the world.
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There is nothing so absurd as knowledge spun too fine.
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Alas, I know if I ever became truly humble, I would be proud of it.
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A true friend is the greatest possesion.
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Eat what you like, but dress for other people.
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