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People who are wrapped up in themselves make small packages.
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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By playing at Chess then, we may learn... First: Foresight. Second: Circumspection. Third: Caution.
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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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I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies.
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When women cease to be handsome, they study to be good.
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We have no poor houses in the Colonies, and if we had, we would have no one to put in them, as in the Colonies there is not a single unemployed man, no poor and no vagabonds.
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He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.
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Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.
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