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Not to oversee workmen is to leave them your purse open.
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.
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