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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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Nothing preaches better than the act.
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They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
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A man compounded of law and gospel is able to cheat a whole country with his religion and then destroy them under color of law
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Security without liberty is called prison.
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Man is a tool-making animal
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Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
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The used key is always bright.
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Strict punctuality is a cheap virtue.
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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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The wise and the brave dares own that he was wrong.
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Let thy vices die before thee.
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The two most beautiful sights I have witnessed in my life are a full blown ship at sail and the round-bellied pregnant female.
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Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.
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If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately.
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Grief for a dead Wife, and a troublesome Guest, Continues to the threshold, and there is at rest But I mean such wives as are none of the best
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It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
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The only time a question should be asked is when all other possibilities of finding the answer for yourself have been eliminated.
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