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What is best for people is what they do for themselves.
Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
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Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece but it is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.
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If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately.
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Do not do that which you would not have known.
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Hope of gain lessens pain.
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There is much money given to be laughed at, though the purchasers don't know it witness A.'s fine horse, and B.'s fine house.
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an enormous proportion of property vested in a few individuals is dangerous to the rights, and destructive of the common happiness of mankind, and, therefore, every free state hath a right by its laws to discourage the possession of such property.
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Dangerous, therefore, is it to take shelter under a tree, during a thunder-gust. It has been fatal to many, both men and beasts.
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That there is one God, who made all things. That he governs the world by his providence. That he might be worshipped by adoration, prayer, and thanksgiving. But that the most acceptable service of God is doing good to Man. That the Soul is immortal. And that God will certainly reward virtue and punish vice, either here or hereafter.
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The best investment is in the tools of one's own trade.
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They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
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Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter.
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