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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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Alas, I know if I ever became truly humble, I would be proud of 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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I think with you, that nothing is of more importance for the public weal, than to form and train up youth in wisdom and virtue. Wise and good men are in my opinion, the strength of the state more so than riches or arms.
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Graft good Fruit all, or graft not at all.
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In short, I conceive that great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by the false estimates they have made of the value of things, and by their giving too much for their whistles.
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Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily cracked, and never well mended.
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Snowy winter, a plentiful harvest.
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You cannot always run from a weakness. You must sometime fight it out or perish.
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Singularity in the right hath ruined many happy those who are convinced of the general opinion.
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A wicked Hero will turn his back to an innocent coward.
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Hold your Council before Dinner the full Belly hates Thinking as well as Acting.
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Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried with fewer tensions and more tolerance.
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To get the bad customs of a country changed and new ones, though better, introduced, it is necessary first to remove the prejudices of the people, enlighten their ignorance, and convince them that their interests will be promoted by the proposed changes and this is not the work of a day.
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Many have been ruined by buying good Pennyworths.
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Praise little, dispraise less.
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If you would not be forgotten, do things worth remembering.
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Blame-all and Praise-all are two blockheads.
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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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Write to Please Yourself. When You write to Please Others You end up Pleasing No one.
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Nor eye in a letter, nor hand in a purse, nor ear in the secret of another.
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