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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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The refusal of King George to allow the colonies to operate an honest money system, which freed the ordinary man from clutches of the money manipulators was probably the prime cause of the revolution.
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There's many witty men whose brains can't fill their bellies.
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I early found that when I worked for myself alone, myself alone worked for me but when I worked for others also, others worked also for me.
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They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
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A little neglect may breed great mischief. ... For want of a nail, the shoe was lost for want of a shoe, the horse was lost for want of a horse, the battle was lost for want of the battle, the war was lost.
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Blame-all and Praise-all are two blockheads.
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I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth — that God governs in the affairs of men.
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It is the duty of mankind on all suitable occasions to acknowledge their dependence on the Divine Being.
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Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
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Squeamish stomachs cannot eat without pickles.
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A change of fortune hurts a wise man no more than a change of the moon.
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[E]very Man who comes among us, and takes up a piece of Land, becomes a Citizen, and by our Constitution has a Voice in Elections, and a share in the Government of the Country.
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If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking.
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On the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet I was, by the endeavor, a better and a happier man than I otherwise should have been had I not attempted it.
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Make the best use of both time and money. Add industry and frugal dealings if they pay very well and if you're free to it.
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Wherever desirable superfluities are imported, industry is excited, and thereby plenty is produced. Were only necessaries permitted to be purchased, men would work no more than was necessary for that purpose.
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He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of most medicines.
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My refusing to eat meat occasioned inconveniency, and I have been frequently chided for my singularity. But my light repast allows for greater progress, for greater clearness of head and quicker comprehension.
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In other men we faults can spy,/ And blame the mote that dims their eye/ Each little speck and blemish find/ To our own stronger errors blind.
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Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
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