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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
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The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
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There will be plenty of time to sleep once you are dead
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I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth — that God governs in the affairs of men.
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Take the money in your wallet and invest it in your mind. And in return, your mind will fill up your wallet!
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It is better to take many injuries than to give one.
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Many a long dispute among divines may be thus abridged: It is so It is not so. It is so it is not so.
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He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
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Getting into debt, is getting into a tanglesome net.
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What good shall I do this day?
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Quarrels never could last long, if on one side only lay the wrong.
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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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Passion governs, and she never governs wisely.
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A greater Quantity of some things may be eaten than of others, some being of lighter Digestion than others.
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My refusing to eat meat occasioned inconveniency, and I have been frequently chided for my singularity. But my light repast allows for greater progress, for greater clearness of head and quicker comprehension.
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As charms are nonsense, nonsense is a charm.
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Thinking aloud is a habit which is responsible for most of mankind's misery.
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No employment can be managed without arithmetic, no mechanical invention without geometry.
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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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