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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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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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Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a mark of folly.
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There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
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A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
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He that cannot obey, cannot command.
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One Man may be more cunning than another, but not more cunning than every body else.
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But the eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. If all but myself were blind, I should want neither fine clothes, fine houses nor fine furniture.
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That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally approved.
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Passion governs, and she never governs wisely.
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Those who sacrifice essential liberty for temporary safety are not deserving of either liberty or safety.
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Reckless youth makes rueful age.
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I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words, Without vanity I may say, etc., but some vain thing immediately followed.
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The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can to hearken to what is said and to answer to the purpose.
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Blame-all and Praise-all are two blockheads.
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Now I've a sheep and a cow, every body bids me good morrow.
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Do not do that which you would not have known.
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Great talkers should be cropt, for they've no need of ears.
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The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.
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A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
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God helps those who help themselves.
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