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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself.
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The only time not wasted is wasted time.
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The same man cannot be both Friend and Flatterer.
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If Men are so wicked as we now see them with Religion what would they be if without it?
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All highly competent people continually search for ways to keep learning, growing, and improving. They do that by asking WHY. After all, the person who knows HOW will always have a job, but the person who knows WHY will always be the boss.
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Hope of gain lessens pain.
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The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse.
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Those who are willing to forfeit liberty for security will have neither.
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I have heard that nothing gives an Author so great Pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors.
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Here comes the orator with his flood of words and his drop of reason.
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If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.
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In America, they do not inquire of a stranger, What is he? but, What can he do?
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Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency but in the world nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes.
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Your best investment is to pour your purse into your head, and no one can take it away from you.
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All cats are gray in the dark.
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I think with you, that nothing is of more importance for the public weal, than to form and train up youth in wisdom and virtue. Wise and good men are in my opinion, the strength of the state more so than riches or arms.
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[It was] the poverty caused by the bad influence of the English bankers on the Parliament which has caused in the colonies hatred of the English and . . . the Revolutionary War.
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One day is worth a thousand tomorrows.
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A fine genius in his own country is like gold in the mine.
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