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Revealed religion has no weight with me.
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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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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Would you live with ease, Do what you ought, and not what you please.
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Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.
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Mankind are very odd creatures: one half censure what they practice, the other half practice what they censure the rest always say and do as they ought.
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When confronted with two courses of action I jot down on a piece of paper all the arguments in favor of each one, then on the opposite side I write the arguments against each one. Then by weighing the arguments pro and con and cancelling them out, one against the other, I take the course indicated by what remains.
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To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girlfriends.
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America cultivates best what Germany brought forth.
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