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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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To the haranguers of the populace among the ancients, succeed among the moderns your writers of political pamphlets and news-papers, and your coffee-house talkers.
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Whoever shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world.
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Love of country is the Mason's deed world citizenship is his thought.
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Strict punctuality is a cheap virtue.
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To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.
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Let our Fathers and Grandfathers be valued for their Goodness, ourselves for our own.
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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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Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.
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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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Marry above thy match and you will get a master.
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I hope...that mankind will at length, as they call themselves reasonable creatures, have reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats for in my opinion there never was a good war, or a bad peace.
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Security without liberty is called prison.
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Nature performs the cure, the physician takes the fee.
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If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
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That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally approved.
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Would thou confound thy enemy, be good thyself.
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