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I am the laziest man in the world. I invented all those things to save myself from toil.
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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Men are subject to various inconveniences merely through lack of a small share of courage, which is a quality very necessary in the common occurrences of life, as well as in a battle. How many impertinences do we daily suffer with great uneasiness, because we have not courage enough to discover our dislike.
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If you wou'd have Guests merry with your cheer, Be so your self, or so at least appear.
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Pride is said to be the last vice the good man gets clear of.
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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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Where there is hunger, law is not regarded and where law is not regarded, there will be hunger.
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Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy
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Our necessities never equal our wants.
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Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.
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Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.
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Time Like a petal in the wind Flows softly by As old lives are taken New ones begin A continual chain Which lasts throughout eternity Every life but a minute in time But each of equal importance
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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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A quarrelsome man has no good neighbours.
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In short, I conceive that great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by the false estimates they have made of the value of things, and by their giving too much for their whistles.
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Do not do that which you would not have known.
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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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Evils come not, then our fears are vain And if they do fear but augments the pain.
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He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
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