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Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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Where there's no law, there's no bread.
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Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
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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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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.
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It might be judged an affront to your understanding should I go about to prove this first principle the existence of a Diety and that He is the Creator of the universe, for that would suppose you ignorant of what all mankind in all ages have agreed in.
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We may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.
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There's small Revenge in Words, but Words may be greatly revenged
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You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.
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Let all Men know thee, but no man know thee thoroughly: Men freely ford that see the shallows.
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Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones the difference is only in the price.
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Think What You Do When You Run in Debt: You Give to Another Power over Your Liberty
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A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
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He that lives well, is learned enough.
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If all but myself were blind, I should want neither a fine house nor fine furniture.
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There is scarce a king in a hundred who would not, if he could, follow the example of Pharoah - get first all the people's money, then all their lands, and then make them and their children servants forever.
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Perhaps I'm too saucy or provoking?
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The busy man has few idle visitors to the boiling pot the flies come not.
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Many have quarreled about religion that never practice it.
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A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone.
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The game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement several very valuable qualities of the mind are to be acquired and strengthened by it, so as to become habits ready on all occasions, for life is a kind of chess.
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