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The securest place is a prison cell, but there is no liberty
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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O powerful goodness! Bountiful Father! Merciful Guide! Increase in me that wisdom which discovers my truest interest. Strengthen my resolution to perform what that wisdom dictates. Accept my kind offices to thy other children as the only return in my power for thy continual favours to me.
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Let honesty be as the breath of thy soul then shalt thou reach the point of happiness, and independence shall be thy shield and buckler, thy helmet and crown then shall thy soul walk upright, nor stoop to the silken wretch because he hath riches, nor pocket an abuse because the hand which offers it wears a ring set with diamonds.
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I would advise you to read with a pen in your hand and enter in a little book short hints of what you feel that is common or that may be useful for this will be the best method of imprinting such portcullis in your memory.
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Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.
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