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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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A penny saved is twopence dear A pin a day 's a groat a year.
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Don't think so much of your own Cunning, as to forget other Men's a Cunning Man is overmatched by a cunning Man and a Half.
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The pleasures of this world are rather from God's goodness than our own merit.
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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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There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.
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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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Cut the Wings of your Hens and Hopes, lest they lead you a weary Dance after them.
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The expenses required to prevent a war are much lighter than those that will, if not prevented, be absolutely necessary to maintain it.
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I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he first forms a good plan, and, cutting off all amusements or other employments that would divert his attention, make the execution of that same plan his sole study and business.
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There's small Revenge in Words, but Words may be greatly revenged
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Many dishes many diseases, Many medicines few cures.
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Let our Fathers and Grandfathers be valued for their Goodness, ourselves for our own.
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He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.
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There are three sorts of people in the world: Those who are immovable, people who don't get it, or don't want to do anything about it there are people who are movable, people who see the need for change and are prepared to listen to it and there are people who move, people who make things happen.
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Whether a Commonwealth suffers more by hypocritical pretenders to religion or by the openly profane? The most dangerous hypocrite in a Commonwealth is one who leaves the gospel for the sake of the law. A man compounded of law and gospel is able to cheat a whole country with his religion and then destroy them under color of law.
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The doors of wisdom are never shut.
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One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.
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It is ill-manners to silence a fool and cruelty to let him go on
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Write to Please Yourself. When You write to Please Others You end up Pleasing No one.
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Take a coin from your purse and invest it in your mind. It will come pouring out of your mind and overflow your purse.
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