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Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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The first Degree of Folly, is to conceit one's self wise the second to profess it the third to despise Counsel.
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If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.
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How do you become better tomorrow? By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid of standing still. Forget your mistakes, but remember what they taught you. So how do you become better tomorrow? By becoming better today.
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There are two ways to increase your wealth. Increase your means or decrease your wants. The best is to do both at the same time.
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Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
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Fear God, and your enemies will fear you.
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Innocence is its own defense.
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A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contently.
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Interest which blinds some People, enlightens others.
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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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Take time for all things.
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To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare.
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A little Religion, and a little Honesty, goes a great way in Courts.
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He that sows Thorns, should never go barefoot.
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Anger and folly walk cheeck by jowl.
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In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.
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Genius is the ability to hold one's vision steady until it becomes reality
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Grief for a dead Wife, and a troublesome Guest, Continues to the threshold, and there is at rest But I mean such wives as are none of the best
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Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
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Many have quarreled about religion that never practice it.
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