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If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty.
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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Masonic labor is purely a labor of love. He who seeks to draw Masonic wages in gold and silver will be disappointed. The wages of a Mason are in the dealings with one another sympathy begets sympathy, kindness begets kindness, helpfulness begets helpfulness, and these are the wages of a Mason.
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Doing an injury puts you below your enemy revenging one make you but even with him forgiving it sets you above him.
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Anger and folly walk cheeck by jowl.
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No nation has ever been ruined by trade.
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Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility they think the same of theirs.
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Eat what you like, but dress for other people.
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Take courage, Mortal... Death cannot banish you from the Universe.
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If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.
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It's the easiest thing in the world for a man to deceive himself.
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Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
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I have heard that nothing gives an Author so great Pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors.
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If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
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Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
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The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can to hearken to what is said and to answer to the purpose.
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They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
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A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins.” Benjamin Franklin
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Who pleasure gives, Shall joy receive
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I looked around for God's judgments, but saw no signs of them.
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I am lord of myself, accountable to none.
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The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you're finished.
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