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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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All the heavenly Bodies, the Stars and Planets, are regulated with the utmost Wisdom! And can we suppose less Care to be taken in the Order of the moral than in the natural System?
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A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone.
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Fish and visitors stink in three days.
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All highly competent people continually search for ways to keep learning, growing, and improving. They do that by asking WHY. After all, the person who knows HOW will always have a job, but the person who knows WHY will always be the boss.
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Wine is constant proof that God loves us and likes to see us happy.
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Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
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The riches of a country are to be valued by the quantity of labor its inhabitants are able to purchase, and not by the quantity of silver and gold they possess which will purchase more or less labor, and therefore is more or less valuable, as is said before, according to its scarcity or plenty.
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When the well is dry, people know the worth of water. [so appreciate what you have while you have it]
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Love of country is the Mason's deed world citizenship is his thought.
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The way to secure peace is to be prepared for war. They that are on their guard, and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being attacked, than the supine, secure, and negligent.
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None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault, or acknowledge himself in an error.
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Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself.
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Singularity in the right hath ruined many happy those who are convinced of the general opinion.
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By playing at Chess then, we may learn: First: Foresight... Second: Circumspection... Third: Caution...And lastly, we learn by Chess the habit of not being discouraged by present bad appearances in the state of our affairs, the habit of hoping for a favorable chance, and that of persevering in the secrets of resources
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A full Belly brings forth every Evil.
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Evils come not, then our fears are vain And if they do fear but augments the pain.
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