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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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As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
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A good example is the best sermon.
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History will also afford frequent opportunities of showing the necessity of a public religion, from its usefulness to the public the advantage of a religious character among private persons the mischiefs of superstition, and the excellency of the Christian religion above all others, ancient or modern.
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There is always room for the man of force.
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There are no ugly loves nor handsome prisons.
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Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.
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Nor eye in a letter, nor hand in a purse, nor ear in the secret of another.
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A penny saved is a penny earned.
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Quacks are the greatest liars in the world except their patients.
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God grant, that not only the Love of Liberty, but a thorough Knowledge of the Rights of Man, may pervade all the Nations of the Earth, so that a Philosopher may set his Foot anywhere on its Surface, and say, 'This is my Country.'
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All the heavenly Bodies, the Stars and Planets, are regulated with the utmost Wisdom! And can we suppose less Care to be taken in the Order of the moral than in the natural System?
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Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece but it is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.
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I early found that when I worked for myself alone, myself alone worked for me but when I worked for others also, others worked also for me.
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The riches of a country are to be valued by the quantity of labor its inhabitants are able to purchase, and not by the quantity of silver and gold they possess which will purchase more or less labor, and therefore is more or less valuable, as is said before, according to its scarcity or plenty.
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Suspicion may be no fault, but showing it may be a great one.
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Are you angry that others disappoint you? Remember you cannot depend upon yourself.
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Is there anything men take more pains about than to render themselves unhappy?
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I know as well as thee that I am no poet born It is a trade, I never learnt nor indeed could learn If I make verses-'tis in spite Of nature and my stars I write.
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He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
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A change of fortune hurts a wise man no more than a change of the moon.
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