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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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A man separated from his reflective belt is no man at all.
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Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.
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I hope...that mankind will at length, as they call themselves reasonable creatures, have reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats for in my opinion there never was a good war, or a bad peace.
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In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.
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This [the U.S. Constitution] is likely to be administered for a course of years and then end in despotism... when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other.
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Eat to live, not live to eat.
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If you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants to see us happy.
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Anger and folly walk cheeck by jowl.
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The way to secure peace is to be prepared for war. They that are on their guard, and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being attacked, than the supine, secure, and negligent.
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The States acceded to the Union.
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Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
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A little Religion, and a little Honesty, goes a great way in Courts.
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To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.
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Squeamish stomachs cannot eat without pickles.
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Hold your Council before Dinner the full Belly hates Thinking as well as Acting.
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There is nothing so absurd as knowledge spun too fine.
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Getting into debt, is getting into a tanglesome net.
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Remember, Sir, that [England] began the slave trade!
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The way to wealth depends on just two words, industry and frugality.
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