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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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Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.
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Take counsel in wine, but resolve afterwards in water.
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When religion is good, it will take care of itself. When it is not able to take care of itself, and God does not see fit to take care of it, so that it has to appeal to the civil power for support, it is evidence to my mind that its cause is a bad one.
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Write to Please Yourself. When You write to Please Others You end up Pleasing No one.
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Time is money, be a better you.
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The apostle Paul very seriously advised Timothy to put some wine in his water for health's sake, but not one of the apostles nor any of the holy fathers have ever recommended putting water in wine
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A greater Quantity of some things may be eaten than of others, some being of lighter Digestion than others.
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I believe long habits of virtue have a sensible effect on the countenance.
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I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth — that God governs in the affairs of men.
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Three things are men most likely to be cheated in, a horse, a wig, and a wife.
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Where there's no law, there's no bread.
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Why does the blind man's wife paint herself.
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To the haranguers of the populace among the ancients, succeed among the moderns your writers of political pamphlets and news-papers, and your coffee-house talkers.
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There will be plenty of time to sleep once you are dead
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If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
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He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face. - Ben Franklin
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In America, they do not inquire of a stranger, What is he? but, What can he do?
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Is there anything men take more pains about than to render themselves unhappy?
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We may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.
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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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