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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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Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility they think the same of theirs.
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The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality: that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality nothing will do, and with them everything.
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Give me 26 lead soldiers and I will conquer the world.
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One of the advantages of being a 'reasonable creature' is that one can find a reason for whatever one wants to do.
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To expect people to be good, to be just, to be temperate, etc., without showing them how they should become so, seems like the ineffectual charity mentioned by the apostle, which consisted in saying to the hungry, the cold and the naked, be ye fed, be ye warmed, be ye clothed, without showing them how they should get food, fire or clothing.
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Forewarn'd, forearm'd.
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Beware the hobby that eats.
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In success be moderate.
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Temperance puts wood on the fire, meal in the barrel, flour in the tub, money in the purse, credit in the country, contentment in the house, clothes on the back, and vigor in the body.
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Your best investment is to pour your purse into your head, and no one can take it away from you.
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It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
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Let all Men know thee, but no man know thee thoroughly: Men freely ford that see the shallows.
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Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason.
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Graft good Fruit all, or graft not at all.
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A little Religion, and a little Honesty, goes a great way in Courts.
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Wherever desirable superfluities are imported, industry is excited, and thereby plenty is produced. Were only necessaries permitted to be purchased, men would work no more than was necessary for that purpose.
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