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A penny saved is twopence dear A pin a day 's a groat a year.
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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... there is much truth in the Italian saying, 'Make yourselves sheep, and the wolves will eat you.'
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O powerful goodness! Bountiful Father! Merciful Guide! Increase in me that wisdom which discovers my truest interest. Strengthen my resolution to perform what that wisdom dictates. Accept my kind offices to thy other children as the only return in my power for thy continual favours to me.
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As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
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Money is of a prolific generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more.
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You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?
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Don't you know, that all wives are in the right? It may be you don't, for you are yet a young husband.
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An ounce of wit that is bought, Is worth a pound that is taught.
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On the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet I was, by the endeavor, a better and a happier man than I otherwise should have been had I not attempted it.
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O Lazy bones! Dost thou think God would have given thee arms and legs, if he had not design'd thou should'st use them?
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