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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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He who will not be counseled cannot be helped.
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An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
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Take a coin from your purse and invest it in your mind. It will come pouring out of your mind and overflow your purse.
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When Wine enters, out goes the Truth.
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Often I sit up in my room reading the greatest part of the night, when the book was borrowed in the evening and to be returned early in the morning, lest it should be missed or wanted.
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Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. Be active in business, that temptation may miss her aim the bird that sits is easily shot.
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He that would travel much, should eat little.
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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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Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure nothing more bondage than too much liberty.
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Annual giving is the custom of making a gift-a-year to an institution in which one has faith.
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