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When men are employed they are best contented.
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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Some men grow mad by studying much to know, But who grows mad by studying good to grow.
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This [the U.S. Constitution] is likely to be administered for a course of years and then end in despotism... when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other.
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Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.
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Hot things, sharp things, sweet things, cold things All rot the teeth, and make them look like old things.
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Want of care does us more damage than want of knowledge
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The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.
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To whom you betray your secret you sell your liberty.
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We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.
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Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things
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