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Doing an injury puts you below your enemy revenging one make you but even with him forgiving it sets you above him.
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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I have heard that nothing gives an Author so great Pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors.
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A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins.” Benjamin Franklin
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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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Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
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And where is the Prince who can afford to so cover his country with troops for its defense, as that ten thousand men descending from the clouds, might not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief, before a force could be brought together to repel them?
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By playing at Chess then, we may learn: First: Foresight... Second: Circumspection... Third: Caution...And lastly, we learn by Chess the habit of not being discouraged by present bad appearances in the state of our affairs, the habit of hoping for a favorable chance, and that of persevering in the secrets of resources
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The only things of certainty are Death and Taxes.
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For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.
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Creditors have better memories than debtors.
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Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue!
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One today is worth two tomorrows.
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An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
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What maintains one vice would bring up two children.
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I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.
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My refusing to eat flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chid for my singularity.
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There are three sorts of people in the world: Those who are immovable, people who don't get it, or don't want to do anything about it there are people who are movable, people who see the need for change and are prepared to listen to it and there are people who move, people who make things happen.
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Many have been ruined by buying good Pennyworths.
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Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
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