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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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Chess Player
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The best is the cheapest.
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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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A man separated from his reflective belt is no man at all.
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The next thing most like living one's life over again seems to be a recollection of that life, and to make that recollection as durable as possible by putting it down in writing.
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A Brother may not be a Friend, but a Friend will always be a Brother.
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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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If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.
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Grief for a dead Wife, and a troublesome Guest, Continues to the threshold, and there is at rest But I mean such wives as are none of the best
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What more valuable than Gold? Diamonds. Than Diamonds? Virtue.
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Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
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Handle your tools without mittens.
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Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
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By playing at Chess then, we may learn... First: Foresight. Second: Circumspection. Third: Caution.
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A word to the wise is enough, and many words won't fill a bushel.
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Why ruin a young girl's life when you can make an older women SO very happy !
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Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.
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In other men we faults can spy,/ And blame the mote that dims their eye/ Each little speck and blemish find/ To our own stronger errors blind.
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Fear to do ill, and you need fear else.
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