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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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Don't put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
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A place for everything, everything in its place.
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Vice knows she is ugly, so puts on her mask.
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There is much money given to be laughed at, though the purchasers don't know it witness A.'s fine horse, and B.'s fine house.
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