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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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Where there is hunger, law is not regarded and where law is not regarded, there will be hunger.
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It's the easiest thing in the world for a man to deceive himself.
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Silence - Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself avoid trifling conversation.
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Courteous Reader, Astrology is one of the most ancient Sciences, held in high esteem of old, by the Wise and the Great. Formerly, no Prince would make War or Peace, nor any General fight in Battle, in short, no important affair was undertaken without first consulting an Astrologer.
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On being asked what condition of man he considered the most pitiable: A lonesome man on a rainy day who does not know how to read.
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The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.
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When about 16 Years of Age, I happened to meet with a Book written by one Tryon, recommending a Vegetable Diet. I determined to go into it.... My refusing to eat Flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chid for my singularity.
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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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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 found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies.
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To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girlfriends.
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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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Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
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The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you're finished.
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