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Read much, but not too many books.
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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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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It's better to swim in the sea below Than to swing in the air and feed the crow, Says jolly Ned Teach of Bristol.
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Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
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Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.
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Let the experiment be made.
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Now I've a sheep and a cow, every body bids me good morrow.
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He who gives up freedom for safety deserves neither.
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Love of country is the Mason's deed world citizenship is his thought.
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Often I sit up in my room reading the greatest part of the night, when the book was borrowed in the evening and to be returned early in the morning, lest it should be missed or wanted.
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Beauty and folly are old companions.
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At twenty years of age the will reigns at thirty, the wit and at forty, the judgment.
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Watch the pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves.
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Most people die at 25 but are buried at 75.
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In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.
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