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A dying man can do nothing easy.
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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Evil, as evil, can never be chosen and though evil is often the effect of our own choice, yet we never desire it but under the appearance of an imaginary good.
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I am the laziest man in the world. I invented all those things to save myself from toil.
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Here Skugg lies snug As a bug in a rug.
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Strict punctuality is a cheap virtue.
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In going on with these Experiments, how many pretty systems do we build, which we soon find ourselves oblig'd to destroy! If there is no other Use discover'd of Electricity, this, however, is something considerable, that it may help to make a vain Man humble.
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Many have quarreled about religion that never practice it.
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The exact Quantity and Quality being found out, is to be kept to constantly.
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But the eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. If all but myself were blind, I should want neither fine clothes, fine houses nor fine furniture.
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The game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement several very valuable qualities of the mind are to be acquired and strengthened by it, so as to become habits ready on all occasions, for life is a kind of chess.
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It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
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Those who would give up liberty for safety deserve neither.
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Great talkers are little doers.
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He that scatters thorns, let him not go barefoot.
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