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Acquire Riches by Industry and Frugality.
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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Fear God, and your enemies will fear you.
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I have been apt to think that there has never been, nor ever will be, any such thing as a good war, or a bad peace.
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He that speaks ill of the mare will buy her.
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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
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Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
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Kings have long arms, but Misfortune longer: let none think themselves out of her reach.
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Great talkers should be cropt, for they've no need of ears.
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All cats look gray in the dark.
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Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.
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Private property...is the creature of society and is subject to the calls of that society even to the last farthing.
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To be proud of virtue, is to poison yourself with the Antidote.
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A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins.” Benjamin Franklin
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He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.
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To get the bad customs of a country changed and new ones, though better, introduced, it is necessary first to remove the prejudices of the people, enlighten their ignorance, and convince them that their interests will be promoted by the proposed changes and this is not the work of a day.
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'tis his honesty that brought upon him the character of a heretic.
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What more valuable than Gold? Diamonds. Than Diamonds? Virtue.
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Content makes poor men rich discontent makes rich men poor.
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