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One today is worth two tomorrows.
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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He that cannot obey, cannot command.
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Wink at small faults remember thou hast great ones.
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Whether a Commonwealth suffers more by hypocritical pretenders to religion or by the openly profane? The most dangerous hypocrite in a Commonwealth is one who leaves the gospel for the sake of the law. A man compounded of law and gospel is able to cheat a whole country with his religion and then destroy them under color of law.
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I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people.
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Singularity in the right hath ruined many happy those who are convinced of the general opinion.
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