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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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To inquisitive minds like yours and mine the reflection that the quantity of human knowledge bears no proportion to the quantity of human ignorance must be in one view rather pleasing, viz., that though we are to live forever we may be continually amused and delighted with learning something new.
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I know as well as thee that I am no poet born It is a trade, I never learnt nor indeed could learn If I make verses-'tis in spite Of nature and my stars I write.
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Clean your finger before you point at my spots.
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If you wou'd have Guests merry with your cheer, Be so your self, or so at least appear.
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Doing an injury puts you below your enemy revenging one make you but even with him forgiving it sets you above him.
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I early found that when I worked for myself alone, myself alone worked for me but when I worked for others also, others worked also for me.
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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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Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy.
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You may sometimes be much in the Wrong, in owning your being in the Right.
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I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge of her faults, and whether she has the virtues I imagine she has? Answer. Commend her among her female acquaintances.
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Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency but in the world nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes.
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That the vegetable creation should restore the air which is spoiled by the animal part of it, looks like a rational system, and seems to be of a piece with the rest.
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All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
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There are two ways to increase your wealth. Increase your means or decrease your wants. The best is to do both at the same time.
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Remember this Saying, 'That the good Paymaster is Lord of another Man's Purse.' He that is known to pay punctually and exactly to the Time he promises, may at any Time, and on any Occasion, raise all the Money his Friends can spare.
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The best investment is in the tools of one's own trade.
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Money is of a prolific generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more.
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A good spouse and health is a person's best wealth.
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Let our Fathers and Grandfathers be valued for their Goodness, ourselves for our own.
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The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.
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