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The cat in gloves catches no mice.
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
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Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
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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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The same man cannot be both Friend and Flatterer.
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What I am to be, I am now becoming.
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Don't you know, that all wives are in the right? It may be you don't, for you are yet a young husband.
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My rule, in which I have always found satisfaction, is, never to turn aside in public affairs through views of private interest but to go straight forward in doing what appears to me right at the time, leaving the consequences with Providence.
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Cunning proceeds from want of capacity.
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You may give give a man office, but you cannot give him discretion
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If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
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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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I know as well as thee that I am no poet born It is a trade, I never learnt nor indeed could learn If I make verses-'tis in spite Of nature and my stars I write.
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Better slip with foot than tongue.
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A quarrelsome man has no good neighbours.
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An ounce of wit that is bought, Is worth a pound that is taught.
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My father's little library consisted chiefly of books in polemic divinity, most of which I read, and have since often regretted that, at a time when I had such a thirst for knowledge, more proper books had not fallen in my way since it was now resolved I should not be a clergyman.
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As to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the system of Morals and his Religion, as he left them to us, the best the World ever saw or is likely to see but I apprehend it has received various corrupting Changes and I have, with most of the present Dissenters in England, some doubts as to his divinity.
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The first mistake in public business is the going into it.
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Hope of gain lessens pain.
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