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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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If you have time don't wait for time.
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Getting into debt, is getting into a tanglesome net.
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Here's to our beloved George Washington, the Joshua of America, who commanded the sun and the moon to stand still - and they obeyed.
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Many have quarreled about religion that never practice it.
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Fear God, and your enemies will fear you.
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Time is money, be a better you.
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Praise little, dispraise less.
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If we look back into history for the character of the present sects in Christianity, we shall find few that have not in their turns been persecutors, and complainers of persecution. The primitive Christians thought persecution extremely wrong in the Pagans, but practised it on one another.
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Your best investment is to pour your purse into your head, and no one can take it away from you.
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He is not well bred, that cannot bear ill breeding in others
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Don't halloo until you're out of the wood.
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In other men we faults can spy,/ And blame the mote that dims their eye/ Each little speck and blemish find/ To our own stronger errors blind.
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Certainlie these things agree, The Priest, the Lawyer, & Death all three: Death takes both the weak and the strong. The lawyer takes from both right and wrong, And the priest from living and dead has his Fee.
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