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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.
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Strive to be the best and you may succeed: he may well win the race that runs by himself.
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If we are industrious, we shall never starve for, at the workingman's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter. Nor will the bailiff or the constable enter, for industry pays debts, while despair increaseth them.
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Many dishes many diseases, Many medicines few cures.
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Fear God, and your enemies will fear you.
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Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
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Take counsel in wine, but resolve afterwards in water.
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One Man may be more cunning than another, but not more cunning than every body else.
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A greater Quantity of some things may be eaten than of others, some being of lighter Digestion than others.
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The US Constitution only guarantees your rights as a citizen, it doesn't guarantee happiness. It may take work, but if you have your rights, happiness is very possible.
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Who has deceived thee as oft as thyself.
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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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Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy.
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Governments having failed the people, the people are entirely justified in assuming for themselves an essential role in government. Where a government takes proper measures to protect the people under its care, such a proceeding might have been thought both unnecessary and unjustifiable: But here it is quite the Reverse.
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When you are done changing, you're done.
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Revealed religion has no weight with me.
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Those who are content have enough those that complain, have too much.
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Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults.
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What signifies knowing the Names, if you know not the Natures of things.
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