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Teach your child to hold his tongue he'll learn fast enough to speak.
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy. An equal dispensation of protection, rights, privileges, and advantages, is what every part is entitled to, and ought to enjoy.
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If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.
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I fear the man who drinks water and so remembers this morning what the rest of us said last night
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A penny saved is twopence dear A pin a day 's a groat a year.
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They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
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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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If you, do what you should not, you must bear what you would not.
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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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Make the best use of both time and money. Add industry and frugal dealings if they pay very well and if you're free to it.
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Speak with contempt of none, from slave to king, The meanest Bee hath, and will use, a sting.
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Let every fart count as a peal of thunder for liberty. Let every fart remind the nation of how much it has let pass out of its control. It is a small gesture, but one that can be very effective - especially in a large crowd. So fart, and if you must, fart often. But always fart without apology. Fart for freedom, fart for liberty - and fart proudly.
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And where is the Prince who can afford to so cover his country with troops for its defense, as that ten thousand men descending from the clouds, might not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief, before a force could be brought together to repel them?
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When you speak to a man, look on his eyes when he speaks to you, look on his mouth.
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Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them, and will never adopt our Language or Customs, any more than they can acquire our Complexion.
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Singularity in the right hath ruined many happy those who are convinced of the general opinion.
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Evil, as evil, can never be chosen and though evil is often the effect of our own choice, yet we never desire it but under the appearance of an imaginary good.
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All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.
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I have thought that wild flowers might be the alphabet of angels, — whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious truths, which it is not given our fallen nature to understand.
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The discovery of a wine is of greater moment than the discovery of a constellation. The universe is too full of stars.
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