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There will be plenty of time to sleep once you are dead
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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Silence Dogood
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Poor Richard
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By playing at Chess then, we may learn: First: Foresight... Second: Circumspection... Third: Caution...And lastly, we learn by Chess the habit of not being discouraged by present bad appearances in the state of our affairs, the habit of hoping for a favorable chance, and that of persevering in the secrets of resources
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I wish to live without committing any fault at any time.
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As to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the system of Morals and his Religion, as he left them to us, the best the World ever saw or is likely to see but I apprehend it has received various corrupting Changes and I have, with most of the present Dissenters in England, some doubts as to his divinity.
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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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The only time not wasted is wasted time.
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The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
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An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
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The sun of liberty is set you must light up the candle of industry and economy.
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There is always room for the man of force.
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Remember, Sir, that [England] began the slave trade!
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He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
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He that drinks his Cyder alone, let him catch his Horse alone.
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Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.
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Trusting too much to others care is the ruin of many.
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An Episcopalian divine once told the Pope that the only difference between their denominations was that the Church of Rome is infallible and the Church of England is never in the wrong.
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When Wine enters, out goes the Truth.
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Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them, and will never adopt our Language or Customs, any more than they can acquire our Complexion.
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In success be moderate.
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