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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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If we are industrious, we shall never starve for, at the workingman's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter. Nor will the bailiff or the constable enter, for industry pays debts, while despair increaseth them.
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Christians are directed to have faith in Christ, as the effectual means of obtaining the change they desire.
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Speak with contempt of none, from slave to king, The meanest Bee hath, and will use, a sting.
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