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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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No longer virtuous no longer free is a Maxim as true with regard to a private Person as a Common-wealth.
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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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