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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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Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have either one.
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When religion is good, it will take care of itself. When it is not able to take care of itself, and God does not see fit to take care of it, so that it has to appeal to the civil power for support, it is evidence to my mind that its cause is a bad one.
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Watch the pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves.
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An old young man, will be a young old man.
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There was great difference in persons and discretion did not always accompany years, nor was youth always without it.
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Games lubricate the body and the mind.
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An Episcopalian divine once told the Pope that the only difference between their denominations was that the Church of Rome is infallible and the Church of England is never in the wrong.
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There are three sorts of people in the world: Those who are immovable, people who don't get it, or don't want to do anything about it there are people who are movable, people who see the need for change and are prepared to listen to it and there are people who move, people who make things happen.
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Take it from Richard, poor and lame, What's begun in anger ends in shame.
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He is ill clothed that is bare of virtue.
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Masonic labor is purely a labor of love. He who seeks to draw Masonic wages in gold and silver will be disappointed. The wages of a Mason are in the dealings with one another sympathy begets sympathy, kindness begets kindness, helpfulness begets helpfulness, and these are the wages of a Mason.
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It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.
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Christians are directed to have faith in Christ, as the effectual means of obtaining the change they desire.
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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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On being asked what condition of man he considered the most pitiable: A lonesome man on a rainy day who does not know how to read.
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The happy State of Matrimony is, undoubtedly, the surest and most lasting Foundation of Comfort and Love . . . the Cause of all good Order in the World, and what alone preserves it from the utmost Confusion.
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A man is not completely born until he is dead. Why then should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals, a new member added to their happy society?
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Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults greater to tell him his.
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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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There will be plenty of time to sleep once you are dead
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