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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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They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
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Man will ultimately be governed by God or by tyrants.
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When you incline to have new clothes, look first well over the old ones, and see if you cannot shift with them another year, either by scouring, mending, or even patching if necessary. Remember, a patch on your coat, and money in your pocket, is better and more creditable, than a writ on your back, and no money to take it off.
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The foundation of all happiness in thinking rightly.
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I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words, Without vanity I may say, etc., but some vain thing immediately followed.
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Do not let fancy outrun your means.
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Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy.
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All the heavenly Bodies, the Stars and Planets, are regulated with the utmost Wisdom! And can we suppose less Care to be taken in the Order of the moral than in the natural System?
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Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.
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Security without liberty is called prison.
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Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
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