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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.
Benjamin Franklin
Scarcely was I arrived at fifteen years of age, when, after having doubted in turn of different tenets, according as I found them combated in the different books that I read, I began to doubt of Revelation itself.
Benjamin Franklin
The only time a question should be asked is when all other possibilities of finding the answer for yourself have been eliminated.
Benjamin Franklin
Those who sacrifice essential liberty for temporary safety are not deserving of either liberty or safety.
Benjamin Franklin
I was surprised to find myself so much fuller of Faults than I had imagined, but I had the Satisfaction of seeing them diminish.
Benjamin Franklin
Love, Cough, & a Smoke, can't well be hid.
Benjamin Franklin
When you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests and their selfish views.
Benjamin Franklin
Creditors have better memories than debtors.
Benjamin Franklin
Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults greater to tell him his.
Benjamin Franklin
To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare.
Benjamin Franklin
Speak with contempt of none, from slave to king, The meanest Bee hath, and will use, a sting.
Benjamin Franklin
Whoever shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world.
Benjamin Franklin
The cat in gloves catches no mice.
Benjamin Franklin
Proclaim not all though knowest, or all though owest.
Benjamin Franklin
Games lubricate the body and the mind.
Benjamin Franklin
Beware the hobby that eats.
Benjamin Franklin
A fine genius in his own country is like gold in the mine.
Benjamin Franklin
There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
Benjamin Franklin
The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you're finished.
Benjamin Franklin
A greater Quantity of some things may be eaten than of others, some being of lighter Digestion than others.
Benjamin Franklin
