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Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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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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America cultivates best what Germany brought forth.
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Half-wits talk much, but say little.
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Revealed religion has no weight with me.
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But the eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. If all but myself were blind, I should want neither fine clothes, fine houses nor fine furniture.
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I think with you, that nothing is of more importance for the public weal, than to form and train up youth in wisdom and virtue. Wise and good men are in my opinion, the strength of the state more so than riches or arms.
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No gains without pains.
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They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
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You can not pluck roses without fear of thorns, Nor enjoy a fair wife without danger of horns.
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Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
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Get what you can, and what you get hold 'tis the Stone that will turn all your Lead into Gold.
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Taxes on consumption, like those on capital or income, to be just, must be uniform.
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I looked around for God's judgments, but saw no signs of them.
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