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No employment can be managed without arithmetic, no mechanical invention without geometry.
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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In other men we faults can spy,/ And blame the mote that dims their eye/ Each little speck and blemish find/ To our own stronger errors blind.
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Nature performs the cure, the physician takes the fee.
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Nothing's so apt to undermine your confidence in a product as knowing that the commercial selling it has been approved by the company that makes it.
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