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Write to Please Yourself. When You write to Please Others You end up Pleasing No one.
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 perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated and that a benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.
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Great talkers should be cropt, for they've no need of ears.
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Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
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How do you become better tomorrow? By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid of standing still. Forget your mistakes, but remember what they taught you. So how do you become better tomorrow? By becoming better today.
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It is better to let 100 criminals go free than to imprison 1 innocent man.
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As to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the system of Morals and his Religion, as he left them to us, the best the World ever saw or is likely to see but I apprehend it has received various corrupting Changes and I have, with most of the present Dissenters in England, some doubts as to his divinity.
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There was great difference in persons and discretion did not always accompany years, nor was youth always without it.
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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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By the word simplicity, is not always meant folly or ignorance but often, pure and upright Nature, free from artifice, craft or deceitful ornament.
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I am in the prime of senility.
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La pereza anda tan despacio que la pobreza no tarda en alcanzarla.
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Lying rides upon debt's back.
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Taxes on consumption, like those on capital or income, to be just, must be uniform.
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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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Time is money'... Waste it now. Pay for it later!
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Squeamish stomachs cannot eat without pickles.
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Joy doesn't exist in the world, it exists in us.
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