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There never was a good knife made of bad steel.
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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Money makes money. And the money that makes money makes more money.
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Those who sacrifice essential liberty for temporary safety are not deserving of either liberty or safety.
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If you would know the value of money go, and try to borrow some! For, he that goes a borrowing, goes a sorrowing! and indeed, so does he that lends to such people, when he goes to get it in again!
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Cut the Wings of your Hens and Hopes, lest they lead you a weary Dance after them.
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Do not do that which you would not have known.
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Is there anything men take more pains about than to render themselves unhappy?
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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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Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.
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He's a fool that makes his doctor his heir.
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Life's Tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
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Cold & cunning come from the north: But cunning sans wisdom is nothing worth.
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It's better to swim in the sea below Than to swing in the air and feed the crow, Says jolly Ned Teach of Bristol.
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Leisure is the time for doing something useful.
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To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
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The discovery of a wine is of greater moment than the discovery of a constellation. The universe is too full of stars.
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Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy.
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We have no poor houses in the Colonies, and if we had, we would have no one to put in them, as in the Colonies there is not a single unemployed man, no poor and no vagabonds.
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The exact Quantity and Quality being found out, is to be kept to constantly.
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Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.
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Snowy winter, a plentiful harvest.
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