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Families ought to be noisy.
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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As to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the system of Morals and his Religion, as he left them to us, the best the World ever saw or is likely to see but I apprehend it has received various corrupting Changes and I have, with most of the present Dissenters in England, some doubts as to his divinity.
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I would rather have it said, 'He lived usefully,' than, 'He died rich.'
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Praise little, dispraise less.
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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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Mankind are dastardly when they meet with opposition.
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Doing an injury puts you below your enemy revenging one make you but even with him forgiving it sets you above him.
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If you want a thing done - go. If not - send.
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There was great difference in persons and discretion did not always accompany years, nor was youth always without it.
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