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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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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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Common sense is something that everyone needs, few have, and none think they lack.
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Stand firm, don't flutter!
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I was surprised to find myself so much fuller of Faults than I had imagined, but I had the Satisfaction of seeing them diminish.
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On the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet I was, by the endeavor, a better and a happier man than I otherwise should have been had I not attempted it.
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What is best for people is what they do for themselves.
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Serving God is doing good to man, but praying is thought an easier service and therefore more generally chosen.
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Let thy vices die before thee.
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In humility imitate Jesus and Socrates.
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Remember, Sir, that [England] began the slave trade!
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Christianity commands us to pass by injuries policy, to let them pass by us.
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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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Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it.
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One today is worth two tomorrows. Lost time is never found again. Time is money. Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff that life is made of. You may delay, but time will not.
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One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.
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Don't put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
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Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.
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