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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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A full Belly makes a dull Brain: The Muses starve in a Cook's Shop.
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An old young man, will be a young old man.
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All cats are gray in the dark.
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Men are subject to various inconveniences merely through lack of a small share of courage, which is a quality very necessary in the common occurrences of life, as well as in a battle. How many impertinences do we daily suffer with great uneasiness, because we have not courage enough to discover our dislike.
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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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Poverty, Poetry, and new Titles of Honor, make Men ridiculous
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Take the money in your wallet and invest it in your mind. And in return, your mind will fill up your wallet!
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The United States Constitutional Convention, except for three or four persons, thought prayers unnecessary.
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I believe there is one Supreme most perfect being. [...] I believe He is pleased and delights in the happiness of those He has created and since without virtue man can have no happiness in this world, I firmly believe He delights to see me virtuous.
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Hold your Council before Dinner the full Belly hates Thinking as well as Acting.
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Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility they think the same of theirs.
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While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
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Vice knows she is ugly, so puts on her mask.
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Give me 26 lead soldiers and I will conquer the world.
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Let thy vices die before thee.
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God grant, that not only the Love of Liberty, but a thorough Knowledge of the Rights of Man, may pervade all the Nations of the Earth, so that a Philosopher may set his Foot anywhere on its Surface, and say, 'This is my Country.'
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It is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.
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He that's content hath enough.
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