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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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He that won't be counseled can't be helped.
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Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, & sloth Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both.
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Often I sit up in my room reading the greatest part of the night, when the book was borrowed in the evening and to be returned early in the morning, lest it should be missed or wanted.
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When about 16 Years of Age, I happened to meet with a Book written by one Tryon, recommending a Vegetable Diet. I determined to go into it.... My refusing to eat Flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chid for my singularity.
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If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.
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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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Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.
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Time eateth all things, could old poets say, The times are chang'd, our times drink all away.
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Avarice and Happiness never saw each other, how then should they become acquainted?
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Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.
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Marry above thy match and you will get a master.
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Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility they think the same of theirs.
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The next thing most like living one's life over again seems to be a recollection of that life, and to make that recollection as durable as possible by putting it down in writing.
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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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Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.
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There will be plenty of time to sleep once you are dead
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Friends are the true Sceptres of Princes.
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A full Belly makes a dull Brain: The Muses starve in a Cook's Shop.
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