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Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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Cheese and salt meat, should be sparingly eat.
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While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
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Many a long dispute among divines may be thus abridged: It is so It is not so. It is so it is not so.
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Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
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The first mistake in public business is the going into it.
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Remember, that money is of the prolific, generating nature.
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What signifies knowing the Names, if you know not the Natures of things.
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When religion is good, it will take care of itself. When it is not able to take care of itself, and God does not see fit to take care of it, so that it has to appeal to the civil power for support, it is evidence to my mind that its cause is a bad one.
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Man will ultimately be governed by God or by tyrants.
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Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.
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Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
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My rule, in which I have always found satisfaction, is, never to turn aside in public affairs through views of private interest but to go straight forward in doing what appears to me right at the time, leaving the consequences with Providence.
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To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare.
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