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Lawyers, Preachers, and Tomtits Eggs, there are more of them hatch'd than come to perfection.
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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Singularity in the right hath ruined many happy those who are convinced of the general opinion.
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Wine is constant proof that God loves us and likes to see us happy.
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In humility imitate Jesus and Socrates.
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To the haranguers of the populace among the ancients, succeed among the moderns your writers of political pamphlets and news-papers, and your coffee-house talkers.
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Why should I give my Readers bad lines of my own when good ones of other People's are so plenty?
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