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Opportunity is the great bawd.
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece but it is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.
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The States acceded to the Union.
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If you would know the value of money go, and try to borrow some! For, he that goes a borrowing, goes a sorrowing! and indeed, so does he that lends to such people, when he goes to get it in again!
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He that drinks fast, pays slow.
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He who multiplies riches multiplies cares.
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This [the U.S. Constitution] is likely to be administered for a course of years and then end in despotism... when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other.
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Eat what you like, but dress for other people.
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Learn of the skillful he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master.
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If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.
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I have found Christian dogma unintelligible.
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Twas Noah who first planted the vine And mended his morals by drinking its wine.
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How do you become better tomorrow? By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid of standing still. Forget your mistakes, but remember what they taught you. So how do you become better tomorrow? By becoming better today.
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It might be judged an affront to your understanding should I go about to prove this first principle the existence of a Diety and that He is the Creator of the universe, for that would suppose you ignorant of what all mankind in all ages have agreed in.
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Take care of the halfpence and pence, and the shillings and pounds will take care of themselves.
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Proclaim not all though knowest, or all though owest.
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