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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he first forms a good plan, and, cutting off all amusements or other employments that would divert his attention, make the execution of that same plan his sole study and business.
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It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
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A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang as when single and a nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang.
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We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
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Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have either one.
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Those who prefer security to liberty deserve neither.
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Beware of meat twice boiled, and an old foe reconciled.
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Taxes on consumption, like those on capital or income, to be just, must be uniform.
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I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies.
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He that drinks his Cyder alone, let him catch his Horse alone.
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The borrower is a slave to the lender and the debtor to the creditor.
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Proclaim not all though knowest, or all though owest.
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Singularity in the right hath ruined many happy those who are convinced of the general opinion.
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On the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet I was, by the endeavor, a better and a happier man than I otherwise should have been had I not attempted it.
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Onions can make even Heirs and Widows weep.
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Experience is the best teacher, but a fool will learn from no other.
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If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
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Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.
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The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
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Many dishes many diseases, Many medicines few cures.
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