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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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Watch the pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves.
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If you want to make a friend, let someone do you a favor.
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Perhaps I'm too saucy or provoking?
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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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