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Silence - Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself avoid trifling conversation.
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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Silence Dogood
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Poor Richard
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If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.
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The only time a question should be asked is when all other possibilities of finding the answer for yourself have been eliminated.
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When you speak to a man, look on his eyes when he speaks to you, look on his mouth.
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We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
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Don't you know, that all wives are in the right? It may be you don't, for you are yet a young husband.
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As often as we do good, we sacrifice.
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An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
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Certainlie these things agree, The Priest, the Lawyer, & Death all three: Death takes both the weak and the strong. The lawyer takes from both right and wrong, And the priest from living and dead has his Fee.
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As to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the system of Morals and his Religion, as he left them to us, the best the World ever saw or is likely to see but I apprehend it has received various corrupting Changes and I have, with most of the present Dissenters in England, some doubts as to his divinity.
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'Tis true there is much to be done, . . . but stick to it steadily, and you will see great effects, for constant dropping wears away stones . . . and little strokes fell great oaks, as Poor Richard says. . . .
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