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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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So convenient a thing to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.
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I have been apt to think that there has never been, nor ever will be, any such thing as a good war, or a bad peace.
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Wine is constant proof that God loves us and likes to see us happy.
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