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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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The First American
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Poor Richard
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Governments having failed the people, the people are entirely justified in assuming for themselves an essential role in government. Where a government takes proper measures to protect the people under its care, such a proceeding might have been thought both unnecessary and unjustifiable: But here it is quite the Reverse.
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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
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I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies.
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I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives.
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Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
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Now I've a sheep and a cow, every body bids me good morrow.
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Wine is constant proof that God loves us and likes to see us happy.
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In success be moderate.
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I looked around for God's judgments, but saw no signs of them.
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