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Do not do that which you would not have known.
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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A place for everything, everything in its place.
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Thank God! we are in the full enjoyment of all these privileges. But can we be taught to prize them too much? or how can we prize them equal to their value, if we do not know their intrinsic worth, and that they are not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature?
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He that hath a trade hath an estate and he that hath a calling hath a place of profit and honor. A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.
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Men differ daily about things which are subject to sense, is it likely then they should agree about things invisible.
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Let thy discontents be thy secrets
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When women cease to be handsome, they study to be good.
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It is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.
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Pain wastes the Body, Pleasures the Understanding.
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Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.
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Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.
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Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter.
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A little neglect may breed great mischief. ... For want of a nail, the shoe was lost for want of a shoe, the horse was lost for want of a horse, the battle was lost for want of the battle, the war was lost.
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Wherever desirable superfluities are imported, industry is excited, and thereby plenty is produced. Were only necessaries permitted to be purchased, men would work no more than was necessary for that purpose.
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Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
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You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?
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Revealed religion has no weight with me.
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In prosperous fortunes be modest and wise, The greatest may fall, and the lowest may rise: But insolent People that fall in disgrace, Are wretched and nobody pities their Case.
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