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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults greater to tell him his.
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It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.
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I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people.
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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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Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
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Hope of gain lessens pain.
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Games lubricate the body and the mind.
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No nation has ever been ruined by trade.
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The wise and the brave dares own that he was wrong.
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I grew convinced that truth, sincerity and integrity in dealings between man and man were of the utmost importance to the felicity of life, and I formed written resolutions . . . to practice them ever while I lived.
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I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives.
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There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
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Your argument is sound, nothing but sound.
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Opportunity is the great bawd.
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When you incline to have new clothes, look first well over the old ones, and see if you cannot shift with them another year, either by scouring, mending, or even patching if necessary. Remember, a patch on your coat, and money in your pocket, is better and more creditable, than a writ on your back, and no money to take it off.
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An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
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A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
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If we look back into history for the character of the present sects in Christianity, we shall find few that have not in their turns been persecutors, and complainers of persecution. The primitive Christians thought persecution extremely wrong in the Pagans, but practised it on one another.
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All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. In my opinion, there never was a good war or a bad peace. When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?
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