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Anger and folly walk cheeck by jowl.
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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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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The first Degree of Folly, is to conceit one's self wise the second to profess it the third to despise Counsel.
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A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang as when single and a nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang.
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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.
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He that won't be counseled can't be helped.
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If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.
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Pain wastes the Body, Pleasures the Understanding.
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A good example is the best sermon.
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No nation was ever ruined by trade.
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To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girlfriends.
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The securest place is a prison cell, but there is no liberty
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Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.
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Three things are men most likely to be cheated in, a horse, a wig, and a wife.
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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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Do well by doing good.
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When the well is dry, we know the worth of water.
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A place for everything, everything in its place.
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He that lieth down with Dogs, shall rise up with Fleas.
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Where there's no law, there's no bread.
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He who gives up freedom for safety deserves neither.
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