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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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Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.
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Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended but that Tomorrow never comes.
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Let honesty and industry be thy constant companions, and spend one penny less than thy clear gains then shall thy pocket begin to thrive creditors will not insult, nor want oppress, nor hungerness bite, nor nakedness freeze thee
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My father's little library consisted chiefly of books in polemic divinity, most of which I read, and have since often regretted that, at a time when I had such a thirst for knowledge, more proper books had not fallen in my way since it was now resolved I should not be a clergyman.
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Singularity in the right hath ruined many happy those who are convinced of the general opinion.
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The exact Quantity and Quality being found out, is to be kept to constantly.
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Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.
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When Wine enters, out goes the Truth.
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A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
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The wise man draws more advantage from his enemies than the fool from his friends
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Why does the blind man's wife paint herself.
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Be not sick too late, nor well too soon
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Hot things, sharp things, sweet things, cold things All rot the teeth, and make them look like old things.
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Pride gets into the Coach, and Shame mounts behind.
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Beer is God's way of telling us that he loves us and wants us to be happy.
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A quarrelsome man has no good neighbours.
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Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
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We are not so sensible of the greatest Health as of the least Sickness.
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