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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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A light purse is a heavy curse.
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I grew convinced that truth, sincerity and integrity in dealings between man and man were of the utmost importance to the felicity of life, and I formed written resolutions . . . to practice them ever while I lived.
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Families ought to be noisy.
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Here comes the orator with his flood of words and his drop of reason.
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I have found Christian dogma unintelligible.
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We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
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What maintains one vice would bring up two children.
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At twenty years of age the will reigns at thirty, the wit and at forty, the judgment.
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Now I've a sheep and a cow, every body bids me good morrow.
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He does not possess wealth it possesses him.
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The one who fails to prepare is preparing to fail.
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He that lieth down with Dogs, shall rise up with Fleas.
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One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.
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The English love an insult. It's their only test of a man's sincerity.
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Acquire Riches by Industry and Frugality.
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The Body of B. Franklin, Printer Like the Cover of an old Book Its Contents turn out And Stript of its Lettering & Guilding Lies here. Food for Worms For, it will as he believed appear once more In a new and more elegant Edition corrected and improved By the Author.
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Don't go to the doctor with every distemper, nor to the lawyer with every quarrel, nor to the pot for every thirst.
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To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare.
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Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
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Graft good Fruit all, or graft not at all.
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