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A fat kitchin, a lean Will.
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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My father's little library consisted chiefly of books in polemic divinity, most of which I read, and have since often regretted that, at a time when I had such a thirst for knowledge, more proper books had not fallen in my way since it was now resolved I should not be a clergyman.
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The best tranquilizer is a clear conscience.
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The Body of B. Franklin, Printer Like the Cover of an old Book Its Contents turn out And Stript of its Lettering & Guilding Lies here. Food for Worms For, it will as he believed appear once more In a new and more elegant Edition corrected and improved By the Author.
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As charms are nonsense, nonsense is a charm.
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Rarely use Venery but for Health or Offspring Never to Dulness, Weakness, or the Injury of your own or another's Peace or Reputation.
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Hope and faith may be more firmly built upon charity, than charity upon faith and hope.
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Joy doesn't exist in the world, it exists in us.
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When you are done changing, you're done.
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Diligence overcomes difficulties sloth makes them.
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A word to the wise is enough, and many words won't fill a bushel.
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Wherever desirable superfluities are imported, industry is excited, and thereby plenty is produced. Were only necessaries permitted to be purchased, men would work no more than was necessary for that purpose.
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Marry above thy match and you will get a master.
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Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones the difference is only in the price.
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When men are employed they are best contented.
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The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
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