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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them, and will never adopt our Language or Customs, any more than they can acquire our Complexion.
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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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Finding myself to exist in the world, I believe I shall, in some shape or other, always exist.
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Lost time is never found again, and what we call time enough, always proves little enough.
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Much Virtue in Herbs, little in Men.
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Without industry and frugality, nothing will do with them, everything.
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The Body of B. Franklin, Printer Like the Cover of an old Book Its Contents turn out And Stript of its Lettering & Guilding Lies here. Food for Worms For, it will as he believed appear once more In a new and more elegant Edition corrected and improved By the Author.
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When the well is dry, people know the worth of water. [so appreciate what you have while you have it]
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I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth — that God governs in the affairs of men.
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Money is of a prolific generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more.
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Resolve to perform what you ought perform without fail what you resolve.
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Never contradict anybody.
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Opportunity is the great bawd.
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An honest Man will receive neither Money nor Praise that is not his due.
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I have heard that nothing gives an Author so great Pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors.
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My rule, in which I have always found satisfaction, is, never to turn aside in public affairs through views of private interest but to go straight forward in doing what appears to me right at the time, leaving the consequences with Providence.
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What signifies knowing the Names, if you know not the Natures of things.
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Taxes on consumption, like those on capital or income, to be just, must be uniform.
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