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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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Mary's mouth cost her nothing for she never opens it but at others' expense.
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Success is the residue of planning.
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What signifies knowing the Names, if you know not the Natures of things.
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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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To expect people to be good, to be just, to be temperate, etc., without showing them how they should become so, seems like the ineffectual charity mentioned by the apostle, which consisted in saying to the hungry, the cold and the naked, be ye fed, be ye warmed, be ye clothed, without showing them how they should get food, fire or clothing.
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There are three sorts of people in the world: Those who are immovable, people who don't get it, or don't want to do anything about it there are people who are movable, people who see the need for change and are prepared to listen to it and there are people who move, people who make things happen.
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A man separated from his reflective belt is no man at all.
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Do not do that which you would not have known.
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In the dark, all cats are grey.
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It's better to swim in the sea below Than to swing in the air and feed the crow, Says jolly Ned Teach of Bristol.
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One Man may be more cunning than another, but not more cunning than every body else.
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An Egg to day is better than a Hen to-morrow.
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Where there is hunger, law is not regarded and where law is not regarded, there will be hunger.
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One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.
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Who pleasure gives, Shall joy receive
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He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.
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He is ill clothed that is bare of virtue.
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