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Nothing preaches better than the act.
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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He that speaks ill of the mare will buy her.
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The busy man has few idle visitors to the boiling pot the flies come not.
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He that's content hath enough.
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I have been apt to think that there has never been, nor ever will be, any such thing as a good war, or a bad peace.
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Silence - Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself avoid trifling conversation.
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I know as well as thee that I am no poet born It is a trade, I never learnt nor indeed could learn If I make verses-'tis in spite Of nature and my stars I write.
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Families ought to be noisy.
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Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.
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Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.
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Cunning proceeds from want of capacity.
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Gentlemen, I have lived a long time and am convinced that God governs in the affairs of men. If a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? I move that prayer imploring the assistance of Heaven be held every morning before we proceed to business.
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Men are subject to various inconveniences merely through lack of a small share of courage, which is a quality very necessary in the common occurrences of life, as well as in a battle. How many impertinences do we daily suffer with great uneasiness, because we have not courage enough to discover our dislike.
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Getting into debt, is getting into a tanglesome net.
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They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
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