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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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Taxes on consumption, like those on capital or income, to be just, must be uniform.
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Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. Be active in business, that temptation may miss her aim the bird that sits is easily shot.
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The best is the cheapest.
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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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Interest which blinds some People, enlightens others.
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