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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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If we lose our Money, it gives us some Concern. If we are cheated or robb'd of it, we are angry: But Money lost may be found what we are robb'd of may be restored: The Treasure of Time once lost, can never be recovered yet we squander it as tho' 'twere nothing worth, or we had no Use for it.
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Time eateth all things, could old poets say, The times are chang'd, our times drink all away.
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Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.
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Lost time can never be found again
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If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
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When Wine enters, out goes the Truth.
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Virtue alone is sufficient to make a man great, glorious, and happy.
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The purpose of money was to purchase one's freedom to pursue that which is useful and interesting.
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A nod from a lord is a breakfast for a fool.
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Pity and forbearance should characterize all acts of justice.
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Lost time is never found again, and what we call time enough, always proves little enough.
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Cold & cunning come from the north: But cunning sans wisdom is nothing worth.
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Do not do that which you would not have known.
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We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously. In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
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To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
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A change of fortune hurts a wise man no more than a change of the moon.
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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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The securest place is a prison cell, but there is no liberty
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Pain wastes the Body, Pleasures the Understanding.
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You have two choices, write about something of significance or do something someone wants to write about.
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