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If this lady is pleased to spend her days with Franklin, he would be just as pleased to spend his nights with her.
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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It's better to swim in the sea below Than to swing in the air and feed the crow, Says jolly Ned Teach of Bristol.
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I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.
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Evil, as evil, can never be chosen and though evil is often the effect of our own choice, yet we never desire it but under the appearance of an imaginary good.
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Why should I give my Readers bad lines of my own when good ones of other People's are so plenty?
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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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Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have either one.
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When about 16 Years of Age, I happened to meet with a Book written by one Tryon, recommending a Vegetable Diet. I determined to go into it.... My refusing to eat Flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chid for my singularity.
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You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?
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Poverty, Poetry, and new Titles of Honor, make Men ridiculous
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Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. Be active in business, that temptation may miss her aim the bird that sits is easily shot.
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Revealed religion has no weight with me.
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I have heard that nothing gives an Author so great Pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors.
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Strict punctuality is a cheap virtue.
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Lost time can never be found again
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One Man may be more cunning than another, but not more cunning than every body else.
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The refusal of King George to allow the colonies to operate an honest money system, which freed the ordinary man from clutches of the money manipulators was probably the prime cause of the revolution.
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He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of most medicines.
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You can not pluck roses without fear of thorns, Nor enjoy a fair wife without danger of horns.
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