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Leisure is the time for doing something useful.
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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I am the laziest man in the world. I invented all those things to save myself from toil.
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My father's little library consisted chiefly of books in polemic divinity, most of which I read, and have since often regretted that, at a time when I had such a thirst for knowledge, more proper books had not fallen in my way since it was now resolved I should not be a clergyman.
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To be proud of virtue, is to poison yourself with the Antidote.
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Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
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In Truth I found myself incorrigible with respect to Order and now I am grown old, and my Memory bad, I feel very sensibly the want of it.
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Those who sacrifice essential liberty for temporary safety are not deserving of either liberty or safety.
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